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    Interview with a Bookstore:
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    By Interview with a Bookstore  April 3, 2019
    Memoir

    Why Am I So Embarrassed About
    Hiring a Nanny?

    By Megan Stack  April 3, 2019
    Hero Worship

    Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero
    is the Problem

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 2, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
    Father Never Really Had

    By Edouard Louis  April 2, 2019
    Dictators

    On the Putin System: How a Dictator Maintains His Power

    By Grigory Yavlinsky  April 2, 2019
    Psychology

    How Do People Actually… Change?

    By Lori Gottlieb  April 2, 2019
    Essay

    On the Stray Dogs of Mexico City:
    a History and a Hymn

    By Chloe Aridjis  April 1, 2019
    Essayists

    My Broke, Black, Beautiful Parents

    By Damon Young  April 1, 2019
    Feature

    5 Books to Help Us Understand
    the Present Moment

    By Douglas Brinkley  April 1, 2019
    Overpopulation

    What Will Happen to the World as
    Life Expectancy Goes Up?

    By Paul Morland  April 1, 2019
    Etymologies

    Spring: A Brief History of
    a Beautiful Word

    By William Bryant Logan  April 1, 2019
    Profile

    An Afternoon at María Gainza’s
    Buenos Aires Home

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 31, 2019
    Brexit

    Will Self Gets to the Bottom of the Brexit Pyramid Scheme

    By Will Self  March 29, 2019
    Feature

    The 50 Best Slaughterhouse-Five Covers from Around the World

    By Emily Temple  March 29, 2019
    Essay

    James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
    at Home in Istanbul

    By Hilal Isler  March 29, 2019
    Memoir

    How the Contemporary Cancer Memoir
    is Reconfiguring Grief

    By Anna Leahy  March 29, 2019
    Advice

    5 Reasons a Writer Should
    Move to London

    By Christine Ro  March 29, 2019
    What to Read

    Memory, Identity, and Connection at the Festival Neue Literatur

    By Literary Hub  March 29, 2019
    Biography

    Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity

    By Lyndall Gordon  March 29, 2019
    Essay

    Joy Williams’ Ecological Call to Arms Is As Urgent As Ever

    By Amy Hempel  March 28, 2019
    Excerpts

    Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell’s Blue

    By John Corbett  March 28, 2019
    Essay

    How the Algorithm Rewards Extremism

    By Clive Thompson  March 28, 2019
    Essay

    Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?

    By Pola Oloixarac  March 28, 2019
    Events

    At a Dinner Inspired by Marlon James Latest Novel

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