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    Awards

    The 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winners in Literature

    By Emily Temple  October 11, 2017
    Short story writers

    The Case That Got Away: Introducing the Sly Noir of A Yi

    By A Yi  October 11, 2017
    Biography

    Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright

    By Kenneth Whyte  October 11, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Putin, the Nobel, and the Greatest

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 11, 2017
    Design

    On Creating a New Imprint’s First Ever Cover: Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart

    By Rachel Ake  October 10, 2017
    What to Read

    My Favorite Books to Sell Over 20 Years of Owning a Bookstore

    By Jeanette Watson  October 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Hard Lessons of Being a Hockey Dad

    By Nick Paumgarten  October 10, 2017
    Politics

    “Diversity in Publishing” Doesn’t Exist—But Here’s How it Can

    By Chris Jackson  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Middle-Aged Love

    By Beth Ann Fennelly  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Is There Ever a Right Time to Talk to Your Children About Fascism?

    By Kera Bolonik  October 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Last Personal Essay About Race I Will Ever Write

    By Musa Okwonga  October 6, 2017
    Poets

    Beauty, a Poem by Solmaz Sharif

    By Solmaz Sharif  October 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Story I Tell Myself About My Father’s Death

    By Sharon Harrigan  October 6, 2017
    Memoir

    Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

    By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

    By Peter Sahlins  October 6, 2017
    Design

    40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 5, 2017
    Awards

    The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

    By Meghan O'Rourke  October 5, 2017
    Essay

    Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

    By Haruki Murakami  October 4, 2017
    Did you know?

    10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

    By Emily Temple  October 4, 2017
    Conversations

    A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Power, Prequels, and Pulitzer Winners

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    Awards

    Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

    By Emily Temple  October 3, 2017
    Memoir

    Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 3, 2017
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