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    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    What to Read

    Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

    By Leila Aboulela  February 11, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Failsafe Reading Recommendations for Your Non-Reader Friend in Need

    By Nick Greene and Megan Reid  February 11, 2020
    The Cold War

    The Last Days at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Cold
    War Begins

    By Diana Preston  February 11, 2020
    The Hub

    It’s just a really good day on the queer book internet!

    By Corinne Segal  February 10, 2020
    Film and TV

    Does Bong Joon-Ho’s Historic Oscar Win Signal Real Change for the Academy Awards?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    A writer is honoring the lives of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper with a mural.

    By Molly Odintz  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    How not to separate your church from your state: Tennessee seeks to make Bible “state book.”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Pedro Almodóvar is adapting Lucia Berlin’s A Manual For Cleaning Women and I am nervous.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 10, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature

    By Douglas Stuart  February 10, 2020
    On Death

    There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

    By Denise Riley  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Poetry

    We Didn’t Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK’s Inauguration

    By John Burnside  February 10, 2020
    Anthropology

    On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

    By Gaia Vince  February 10, 2020
    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    The Cold War

    Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

    By Diana Preston  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    A new law aimed at the gig economy is affecting writers. Lawmakers are trying to change it.

    By Corinne Segal  February 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Stephen Colbert thinks The Hobbit is only okay.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the longlist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 7, 2020
    The Hub

    A new prize will award $150,000 to a female novelist every year.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 7, 2020
    The Hub

    How Octavia Butler’s radical vision of femininity inspired The OA.

    By Emily Temple  February 7, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    First Nations Writers

    Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

    By Richard Wagamese  February 7, 2020
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