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    On the Great Secret-Keepers
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    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    American History

    Piecing Together the Lives
    of Enslaved Americans

    By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
    Walking

    An Ode to Women Who Walk,
    From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

    By Lizzy Stewart  November 21, 2019
    Economics

    When a City Goes Bankrupt: A Brief History of Detroit c. 2010

    By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 21, 2019
    Awards

    Here Are the National Book Award Winners!

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    The Hub

    Here’s where you can watch the National Book Awards live.

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    Oxford’s Word of the Year 2019 is…

    By Dan Sheehan  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Inside Salman Rushdie’s former safe house on London’s shady “Billionaires Row.”

    By Aaron Robertson  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Move over, Twitter: Poetizer is a “positive, metaphysical,” poem-based social media platform.

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    A very accurate prediction of LeVar Burton’s night hosting the National Book Awards.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Today in not everything is terrible: HarperCollins is launching a Native-centric imprint.

    By Emily Temple  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    The New York Times’ acclaimed “1619 Project” to become a series of books.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

    By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
    American Diplomacy

    American Diplomacy After Benghazi

    By Paul Richter  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
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    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Sociology

    The Debutante Ball in the Global
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    By Kristen Richardson  November 20, 2019
    World War II

    Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

    By Serhii Plokhy  November 20, 2019
    Movies

    Hollywood’s Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and…The Wiz

    By Jeanine Basinger  November 20, 2019
    Awards

    Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2019
    Adolescence

    Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

    By Jaquira Díaz  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    Meditations

    In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe
    in an Oak Tree

    By Jung Young Moon  November 20, 2019
    Inequality

    Malcolm Garcia Documents the Lives of America’s Have-Nots

    By Dale Maharidge  November 20, 2019
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