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    Michael Fassbender to adapt Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 18, 2019
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Visiting Jeff VanderMeer’s Weird, Wondrous Worlds

    By Erin Berger  December 18, 2019
    The Writing Life

    When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

    By Laleh Khadivi  December 18, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Character Development

    How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

    By Jim Davies  December 18, 2019
    Class

    Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class

    By Enza Gandolfo  December 18, 2019
    War

    Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

    By Mike Giglio  December 18, 2019
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami celebrated 40 years of being a novelist with a rare public reading of his next book.

    By Corinne Segal  December 17, 2019
    The Hub

    Crazy Rich Asians‘s Jon M. Chu is adapting Mary H.K. Choi’s Permanent Record.

    By Katie Yee  December 17, 2019
    The Hub

    Of course Emma Watson is hiding copies of Little Women around London.

    By Corinne Segal  December 17, 2019
    Shakespeare

    High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
    The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 17, 2019
    Anthropology

    Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

    By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water

    By Laura Trethewey  December 17, 2019
    #MeToo

    A Season of Books Takes Stock
    of #MeToo

    By Kaylen Ralph  December 17, 2019
    Ancient History

    On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  December 17, 2019
    Tributes

    Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Mira Jacob  December 17, 2019
    The Hub

    ICYMI: Waterstones has the hottest gift-wrapping tip of the season.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 16, 2019
    The Hub

    George R.R. Martin opens bookstore next to his movie theater in Santa Fe.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 16, 2019
    The Hub

    America 2019: Area man steals rare books in order to pay for cancer treatment.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 16, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

    By Abigail Hing Wen  December 16, 2019
    Film

    When a Cinematic Dystopia Becomes a Daily Reality

    By David Roth  December 16, 2019
    Film

    Here is Werner Herzog’s Eerie Prose Script for Nosferatu the Vampyre

    By Werner Herzog  December 16, 2019
    American History

    Bringing Hitler’s Hidden Army to Justice

    By Debbie Cenziper  December 16, 2019
    Criticism

    For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2019
    American History

    Meet a Bad Man Who Became
    a Truly Great Spy

    By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
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