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    Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change?

    By Omar El Akkad  September 16, 2019
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    By Elizabeth McCracken  September 16, 2019
    End Times

    Can Climate Fiction Be… Hopeful?

    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2019
    Literary History

    The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

    By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
    Genetics

    Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

    By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019
    Climate Change

    Marching on London with Extinction Rebellion

    By Thomas Bunstead  September 16, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On the Rare Decency of
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    By John Freeman  September 16, 2019
    The Hub

    With Covering Climate Now, we’re publishing new stories of the climate crisis.

    By Corinne Segal  September 13, 2019
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    Tayari Jones, Duchess Goldblatt, and the manager of the Wu-Tang Clan: the week in book deals

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2019
    Art History

    On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

    By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019
    New York City

    September 10, 2001 at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World

    By Tom Roston  September 13, 2019
    Addiction

    On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

    By Chris Fleming  September 13, 2019
    Childhood

    Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

    By Brandon Taylor  September 13, 2019
    Film

    What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie ‘Universal’ Status?

    By Simon Han  September 13, 2019
    Myth

    The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

    By Kassandra Montag  September 13, 2019
    Fishing

    Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2019
    Awards

    The longlist nominees for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction are. . .

    By Aaron Robertson  September 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Watch the creepy first trailer for Dublin Murders, based on Tana French’s novels.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Edmund White will receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  September 12, 2019
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

    By Jaime Fuller  September 12, 2019
    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Smut I Say!

    When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    Animals

    How Can You Know What Your Dog
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    By Alexandra Horowitz  September 12, 2019
    WWII

    The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race

    By Richard Askwith  September 12, 2019
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