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    The Hub

    This year’s PEN World Voices Festival lineup includes Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, and more.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Three new Ojibwe-language books will tell the stories of tribal elders in their own words.

    By Corinne Segal  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Remember the time NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch put Klan hoods on Thomas the Train and friends?

    By Jonny Diamond  February 28, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 16 Best Book Covers of February

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Queer Identity

    The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

    By Zee Francis  February 28, 2020
    History

    When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

    By Matt Kapp  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Elisa Gabbert, author of The Word Pretty, is the new Times poetry columnist.

    By Julia Hass  February 27, 2020
    Conspiracies

    Wild conspiracy theory books about the coronavirus are proliferating on Amazon.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 27, 2020
    Scandals

    Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is going to prison for a children’s book scandal.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson is trying to get Thomas Pynchon to endorse Bernie.

    By Emily Temple  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Edwidge Danticat is the first two-time winner of the $20,000 Story Prize.

    By Katie Yee  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but please stop going into bookstores and kicking the books.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Here is the 2020 International Booker Prize longlist (with good news for indie presses).

    By Corinne Segal  February 27, 2020
    TV

    How the 1980s Soap Opera Craze Changed Television Forever

    By Elana Levine  February 27, 2020
    On Race

    The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

    By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
    Democracy

    A Call to Action for the Large, Cacophonous Mess That is the Democratic Party

    By Dan Pfeiffer  February 27, 2020
    Memoir

    Elizabeth Tallent on Death, Silence and the Intimacies of Sadness

    By Elizabeth Tallent  February 27, 2020
    Journalism

    When America’s Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

    By Stephanie Gorton  February 27, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    Film

    Mrinal Sen’s Films Rejected Political Apathy in India

    By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Bestselling author and real-life Hemingway hero Clive Cussler has died.

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2020
    Book Bot

    Meet AROUND B, the book bot butler.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Will the new adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities still have Big Dickens Energy?

    By Dan Sheehan  February 26, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Coronavirus is affecting the Italian publishing industry in a big way.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 26, 2020
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