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    Awards

    Here are the Finalists for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards

    By Emily Temple  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    Are Children of Queer Families More Than Allies?

    By Alysia Abbott  January 22, 2018
    Excerpts

    After My Daughter Was Born, I Became a Spiritual Tourist

    By Anjali Kumar  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

    By Veronica Esposito  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    What If You Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?

    By Aminatta Forna  January 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Worst of Times: Our Year in Irreality

    By John Freeman  January 19, 2018
    Criticism

    Can Speculative Short Fiction Really Work on TV?

    By Eric Thurm  January 19, 2018
    Essay

    How to Read Caves

    By Susan Harlan  January 19, 2018
    In Memoriam

    For Peter Mayle, Retirement Became the Career

    By Bethanne Patrick  January 19, 2018
    Essay

    Rebecca Solnit: 20 Million Missing People Could Save America

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

    By Justin Spring  January 18, 2018
    Essay

    I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

    By Molly Caro May  January 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Conversation I’ve Been Dreading: Ijeoma Oluo Talks About Race with Her Mom

    By Ijeoma Oluo  January 17, 2018
    Essay

    There is No Single Voice of America

    By Elaine Castillo  January 17, 2018
    Essay

    The Largesse of Denis Johnson

    By Mary O'Connell  January 16, 2018
    Feature

    15 Covers for The Bell Jar, Ranked from Most to Least Sexist

    By Emily Temple  January 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    Where Does London, the City, Really End?

    By Iain Sinclair  January 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    From Calcutta to Jersey and Back Again, an Epic Immigrant Journey

    By Kushanava Choudhury  January 12, 2018
    Feature

    There Can Never Be Enough Books for Small Children

    By Matt Grant  January 11, 2018
    Essay

    The Half-Wild Muse: On Writers and Their Cats

    By Tim Weed  January 10, 2018
    Feature

    20 Author Photos: Then and Now

    By Emily Temple  January 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Decision to Publish the Largest Leak in the History of American Power

    By Jeff Himmelman  January 10, 2018
    Essay

    Turning Thirty in the Shadow of Dracula’s Castle

    By Lara Williams  January 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Happens When There’s a Madman in the White House?

    By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis  January 10, 2018
    Essay

    There’s Got to Be a Better Way to Categorize the Books We Love

    By Maggie Anderson  January 9, 2018
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