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    The employees at iconic NYC bookstore McNally Jackson have voted to unionize.

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    Watch the first tantalizing trailer for Little Fires Everywhere.

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    Esmé Weijun Wang, Danielle Evans, and Aaliyah: the week’s most exciting book deals.

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2019
    Awards

    Here are PEN America’s 2020 literary awards longlists.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  December 13, 2019
    Cookbooks

    The New Edition of The Joy of Cooking
    is a Family Affair

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 13, 2019
    Anthropocene

    Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets

    By Christopher Schaberg  December 13, 2019
    Sex

    Hosting an Orgy? This 1970s Cookbook Has You Covered

    By Lizzy Saxe  December 13, 2019
    Philosophy

    Gary Snyder on the Sacred Power of a Little Bit of Dancing

    By Gary Snyder  December 13, 2019
    Nature

    On the Irresistible Lure of
    the North Country

    By Jim Christy  December 13, 2019
    New Books Network

    Melissa Albert on Her Icy Teen Heroine and the Resuscitation
    of Fairy Tales

    By New Books Network  December 13, 2019
    Technology

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    Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise is coming to your television.

    By Corinne Segal  December 12, 2019
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    Kosovo declares Peter Handke “persona non grata” as Nobel controversy continues.

    By Corinne Segal  December 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Announcing the winners of the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards.

    By Aaron Robertson  December 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Book-shaped objects are the new books: 25 great gifts for people who love books but not reading.

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2019
    Young Adult

    Rereading the Master of
    ‘Dying Teen’ Lit

    By Katy Hershberger  December 12, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    Virginia Woolf’s Mother Haunts
    Much of Her Writing

    By Gillian Gill  December 12, 2019
    Teenagers

    On the Trail With the Vlogging
    Teens of America

    By Mark Kenyon  December 12, 2019
    The Best of the Decade

    The 10 Best Literary Film Adaptations
    of the Decade

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2019
    American History

    W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

    By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall  December 12, 2019
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    Education

    The American Universities That Took in Scholars from Nazi Europe

    By Laurel Leff  December 12, 2019
    Cookbooks

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    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse

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    Baz Luhrmann is adapting The Master and Margarita for the big screen.

    By Emily Temple  December 11, 2019
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