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    Reading Across America

    A Reading Series That Challenges Calls for ‘Civility’

    By Meher Manda  August 28, 2019
    Democracy

    On the Dangerous Temptations of Political Contempt

    By Michael Patrick Lynch  August 28, 2019
    The Hub

    Five brilliant young bards honored by the Poetry Foundation.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 27, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is the trailer for Dickinson, a sexy series about young Emily Dickinson.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 27, 2019
    Reading

    The End-of-Summer Joy of Reading by a Motel Pool

    By Susan Harlan  August 27, 2019
    Baseball

    Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

    By Ryan Swanson  August 27, 2019
    Reparations

    What Germany Can (and Can’t) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

    By Susan Neiman  August 27, 2019
    Women's Health

    Talking About the Pain and Anxiety of Menstruation

    By Eleanor Morgan  August 27, 2019
    Mental health

    A Mental Health Activist Confronts Her Own Inner Turmoil

    By Leah Harris  August 27, 2019
    The Hub

    If you have $6.2 million, you can live in Tom Clancy’s 17,178-square-foot estate.

    By Emily Temple  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Amazon is opening a store across the street from Nashville’s Parnassus Books, because Amazon is bad.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is a cool statue of Ray Bradbury riding a rocket Dr. Strangelove-style.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Andrew Luck, retiring NFL star and inspiration for one of the all-time great Twitter accounts, is also a book nerd.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 26, 2019
    Artificial Intelligence

    If Planet Death Doesn’t Get Us, an AI Superintelligence Most Certainly Will

    By Bryan Walsh  August 26, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Feminism

    Sady Doyle on the Man Who Insisted His Wife Was a Malevolent Fairy

    By Sady Doyle  August 26, 2019
    Grief

    Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

    By Kelsey Ronan  August 26, 2019
    Film

    How Martin Scorsese Straddled Hollywood and Auteur Filmmaking

    By Paul Lopes  August 26, 2019
    The Holocaust

    Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

    By Maria Tumarkin  August 26, 2019
    Craft

    Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

    By But That's Another Story  August 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Attention Hollywood: Max Brooks and Cecily von Ziegesar both just sold new novels.

    By Emily Temple  August 23, 2019
    Tourism

    Standing Room Only: On Overtravel and the Joy of the Unsung

    By Thomas Swick  August 23, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    What Does a War Correspondent
    Look Like?

    By Zara Meerza  August 23, 2019
    American Classics

    Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

    By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
    Keen On

    Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

    By Keen On  August 23, 2019
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