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    Love Stories

    André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

    By Brian Gresko  November 1, 2019
    Residencies

    Swimming Through Writer’s Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

    By Amanda Whiting  November 1, 2019
    Stephen Crane

    A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

    By Tobias Carroll  November 1, 2019
    Cookbooks

    Cookbooks Are So Much More Than Recipes and Photographs

    By Joshua Raff  November 1, 2019
    Dissidents

    Ahmet Atlan: My Country Has Not Imprisoned My Mind

    By Ahmet Atlan  November 1, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Elsa Hart on Writing an 18th-Century Crime-Solving Librarian

    By New Books Network  November 1, 2019
    The Hub

    Eve L. Ewing’s debut poetry collection is being adapted for TV.

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 31, 2019
    The Hub

    An early look at the adaptation of Normal People, with commentary from my Irish colleagues.

    By Emily Temple  October 31, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    Horror

    The Terror Behind the Mask

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2019
    Feminism

    The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club

    By Ruth Madievsky  October 31, 2019
    Audiobooks

    5 Halloween Audiobooks to Listen to While You Hide From Children

    By James Tate Hill  October 31, 2019
    Magic?

    A Most Rare Compendium:
    An 18th-Century Guide to Magical Treasure Hunting?

    By Hereward Tilton  October 31, 2019
    Madness

    American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

    By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
    France

    Ode to the Seine, River of Romance

    By Elaine Sciolino  October 31, 2019
    Family

    Lessons of Staying Put from a Southern Childhood

    By Allison Moorer  October 31, 2019
    The Day of the Dead

    The Day of the Dead: Day of Masquerade and Rebellion

    By Paul Theroux  October 31, 2019
    The Hub

    Mary Ruefle is Vermont’s new poet laureate!

    By Katie Yee  October 30, 2019
    The Hub

    Fires and power outages plague California indie booksellers.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 30, 2019
    The Hub

    If you have €4.5 million, you can buy the house where J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit.

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 30, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of October

    By Emily Temple  October 30, 2019
    Cancer

    Trying to Convince Myself That My Son Doesn’t Have Cancer

    By Lise Marzouk  October 30, 2019
    Arts and Crafts

    What Traditional Papermaking
    Looks Like in 2019

    By Emily Freidenrich  October 30, 2019
    Indigenous Rights

    In the 1960s, the US Decided My Tribe Was No Longer a Nation

    By Ada Deer  October 30, 2019
    Motherhood

    What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

    By Cinelle Barnes  October 30, 2019
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