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    Life in a Freewheeling, Buoyant Dystopia (With Baseball at Its Center)

    By Mimi Lok  February 5, 2020
    The Holocaust

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    By Ariana Neumann  February 5, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

    By Michael G. Long  February 5, 2020
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    There’s going to be a TV adaptation of The Naked and the Dead, because sure.

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
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    Farewell to Emily Books, a champion of the adventurous, rebellious, and under-recognized.

    By Corinne Segal  February 4, 2020
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    A light in the darkness: Garth Greenwell live-tweeted the Iowa Caucuses and it was delightful.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 4, 2020
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    10 new books you should read this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 4, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

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    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
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    By Literary Hub  February 4, 2020
    The Cold War

    Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

    By Diana Preston  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

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    Edwidge Danticat takes home the $100,000 Vilcek Prize in Literature.

    By Katie Yee  February 3, 2020
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    Literary agents representing resistance superhero “Anonymous” go on record refuting scurrilous rumors.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 3, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    Conmen

    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
    Literary Criticism

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    Love

    The Delicate Art of Living Alone: Asking the French About Love

    By Stefania Rousselle  February 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

    By Melissa Mesku  February 3, 2020
    Memoir

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    By Eleanor Anstruther  February 3, 2020
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    Dave Matthews is writing a middle grade fantasy novel.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 31, 2020
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    Evelyn Waugh’s granddaughter is publishing a “crime comedy” spinoff of Brideshead Revisited.

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2020
    Book Covers

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    The Nuclear Age

    How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

    By Fred M. Kaplan  January 31, 2020
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