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    Some Hilarious Illustrations from America’s First Bestselling Diet Book

    By Emily Temple  January 15, 2019
    Deep Dive

    This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

    By Rebecca Romney  January 15, 2019
    Essay

    Into a Crueler America: Two Border Crossings, 30 Years Apart

    By Reyna Grande  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    How I Found Love One Literary Event at a Time

    By Tajja Isen  January 14, 2019
    Profanity

    The Scientific Case for Calling the President a Motherf*cker

    By Emma Byrne  January 11, 2019
    Poem

    “When It Comes to This Fleshed Neck”

    By Deborah Landau  January 11, 2019
    Essay

    On the Excavation of My Desk

    By David L. Ulin  January 10, 2019
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    Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood

    By Zan Romanoff  January 10, 2019
    Feature

    How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

    By Leslie Pariseau  January 10, 2019
    Essay

    Why Does Women’s Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

    By Blythe Roberson  January 10, 2019
    Conversations

    Conversations with My Nanny

    By Leïla Slimani  January 10, 2019
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    Kristen Arnett: A Librarian’s Resolutions for the New Year

    By Kristen Arnett  January 9, 2019
    Conversations

    Interview with a Bookstore: When the Mayor is Also a Bookseller

    By Interview with a Bookstore  January 9, 2019
    Awards

    Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2019
    Excerpts

    Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

    By Karen Babine  January 8, 2019
    Design

    How to Design a Book Cover… Backwards?

     January 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    Gabriel García Márquez Remembers His Dearest Friend, Julio Cortázar

    By Gabriel García Márquez  January 8, 2019
    Did you know?

    How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

    By Emily Temple  January 7, 2019
    Feminism

    The Intersectionality Wars: Does the Term Even Mean Anything Anymore?

    By Jennifer C. Nash  January 7, 2019
    Essay

    When Privilege Confronts Its Past: On the Mexican-American Dream

    By Angela Morales  January 4, 2019
    Excerpts

    When American Artists Tried to Start a Television Revolution

    By John J. Curley  January 4, 2019
    Escape

    Morris Collins on the Temptations of Certainty and the Lives of the Ex-Pats

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 4, 2019
    Feature

    6 Essential Texts of Climate Change Written By Women

    By Sarah Boon  January 4, 2019
    Essay

    On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)

    By Steve Edwards  January 3, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards

    By Thomas S. Gowing  January 3, 2019
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