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    Here are the 10 books you should read this week.

    By Katie Yee  December 3, 2019
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    This class on ‘adulting’ at a Virginia library looks ridiculous and I want to take it.

    By Corinne Segal  December 3, 2019
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    Margaret Atwood and her late husband Graeme Gibson reminisce about the intense literary scene of 1970s Toronto.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
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    Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship has been restored, and he feels fine about it.

    By Corinne Segal  December 3, 2019
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    This year’s Bad Sex Writing award split between two men and I refuse to make any jokes about it.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
    Food

    The True Tales of a
    Literary Bartender

    By Erika Mailman  December 3, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    Directors

    At the Heart of Werner Herzog’s Brilliance, an Uncomfortable Relationship with Truth

    By Nick Fraser  December 3, 2019
    World War II

    On the Eve of WWII:
    Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris

    By Françoise Frenkel  December 3, 2019
    Religious History

    Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

    By Karen Armstrong  December 3, 2019
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    The Apostrophe Protection Society is dead, and we killed it.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 2, 2019
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    Two of the people brought in to clean up the Nobel committee’s act have quit in frustration.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2019
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    Children who own books more likely to be good readers, reveals obvious study.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
    Editors

    Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

    By Lore Segal  December 2, 2019
    Cities

    On (and In) The Sewers (and Sewage) That Transformed Paris

    By Stephen Halliday  December 2, 2019
    Judaism

    On Engaging with Judaism Through Poetry: A Roundtable

    By Rachel Mennies  December 2, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Eric Dyson on Faith, Blackness, and Jay Z’s Appreciation for Language

    By But That's Another Story  December 2, 2019
    New Books Network

    C.P. Lesley and Charles Todd Talk Victorian Sleuths and the Toll of WWI

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2019
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    Jeremy Corbyn vows to protect libraries from forces of doom.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 27, 2019
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    Damp, wrinkly, virile: Here are this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award nominees.

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 27, 2019
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    The anonymous author of A Warning has answered some of the public’s questions.

    By Emily Temple  November 27, 2019
    Climate Change

    The Car Culture That’s Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

    By Jeff Sparrow  November 27, 2019
    Religion

    Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

    By Thomas Lynch  November 27, 2019
    Writing Life

    How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

    By Caroline Louise Walker  November 27, 2019
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