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    By Katya Cengel  September 20, 2019
    Keen On

    Is the Age of Automation the New Industrial Revolution?

    By Keen On  September 20, 2019
    Animals

    Vanishing Bees Should Not Be the New Normal

    By Brigit Strawbridge Howard  September 20, 2019
    WWII

    Reckoning with the Slave Empires of WWII

    By James Walvin  September 20, 2019
    Healthcare

    How Overdiagnosing Can Go Terribly Wrong

    By Marty Makary  September 20, 2019
    Immigration

    The Problem of Germany’s Post-War Internal Refugees

    By Peter Gatrell  September 20, 2019
    Awards

    Kamila Shamsie was stripped of a literary award for her support of Palestine.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 19, 2019
    The Hub

    Residents of this Colorado city are trying to save local journalism… with their library’s help.

    By Corinne Segal  September 19, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

    By Literary Hub  September 19, 2019
    Climate Change

    Naomi Klein’s Advice for the Next Generation of Climate Activists

    By Naomi Klein  September 19, 2019
    Literary Magazines

    Jim Shepard on Why We Still Need Literary Journals

    By Jim Shepard  September 19, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    On E.B. White’s Urgent Calls for Environmental Justice

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  September 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    Animals

    Can Humans Read Animals’ Minds?

    By Lars Svendsen  September 19, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    Gun Island and the Stories That Emerge on a Changing Planet

    By Torsa Ghosal  September 19, 2019
    Medicine

    How the Human Face of Medicine is Too Often Missing

    By Arthur Kleinman  September 19, 2019
    The Cold War

    When Leonard Bernstein Played Cultural Diplomat in 1960s Japan

    By Mari Yoshihara  September 19, 2019
    Feminism

    Mona Eltahawy: Civility Will Not Overturn the Patriarchy

    By Mona Eltahawy  September 19, 2019
    The Hub

    One of Elizabeth Warren’s strategists is longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry.

    By Emily Temple  September 18, 2019
    The Hub

    Lucy Ellmann says if you can’t handle her 1,034-page book, you’re probably a baby.

    By Corinne Segal  September 18, 2019
    The Hub

    Here’s what the first audio comic for blind readers sounds like.

    By Corinne Segal  September 18, 2019
    The Hub

    Here’s the 2019 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry.

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2019
    Writers Abroad

    The Soundtrack You Need for Traveling the World With Your Kids

    By Dan Kois  September 18, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    What Listening Means in a Time of Climate Crisis

    By Tara Houska  September 18, 2019
    The Internet

    What Would Happen If the World Lost the Internet?

    By Mike Pearl  September 18, 2019
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