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    Personal Essay

    My Mysterious Mother: Beauty Queen, Rebel Leader, National Icon

    By Charmaine Craig  May 2, 2017
    Essay

    Another Man’s Liberator: Hopeless Votes for Trump in West Virginia

    By Joe Halstead  May 2, 2017
    Where to Go

    5 Must-See Events at the PEN World Voices Festival on Gender and Power

    By Emily Temple  May 2, 2017
    Events

    Celebrating the Birth of Books Are Magic

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  May 2, 2017
    Feature

    Secrets of the Book Designer: My Job Isn’t To Make Things Pretty

    By Steve Attardo  May 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    New Clothes Won’t Fix You (and Will Likely Cause Shame and Discomfort)

    By Scaachi Koul  May 1, 2017
    Events

    Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  May 1, 2017
    Politics

    American Stories Are Refugee Stories

    By Beth Nguyen   May 1, 2017
    News

    Dear New York Times: Climate Denial Has No Place in the Paper of Record

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Violence, Brotherhood, and Life in the North Country

    By Zak Breckenridge  April 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Dictator at the Podium: The First 100 Days Takes Me Back 25 Years

    By Danuta Hinc  April 28, 2017
    News

    The Week in Literary Film and TV News

    By Emily Temple  April 28, 2017
    Politics

    Calling a Lie a Lie: On the First 100 Days of Donald Trump’s Presidency

    By Literary Hub  April 28, 2017
    In Memoriam

    A Writer to the Very End: Remembering the Great “Gatz”

    By Maryanne Vollers  April 28, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Ancient Astronaut Aryans: On the Far Right Obsession with Indo-Europeans

    By Ramon Glazov  April 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

    By Timothy Snyder  April 28, 2017
    Speech

    Why the First Amendment is Important for Publishers

    By John Sargent  April 27, 2017
    Conversations

    Emma Straub on the Power of the Indie Bookstore

    By Emily Temple  April 27, 2017
    Politics

    In the Age of Trump, Reclaiming the Golem as a Symbol of Jewish Resistance

    By Nathan Goldman  April 27, 2017
    What to Read

    10 More of the Best Young American Novelists

    By Emily Temple  April 27, 2017
    Events

    Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  April 27, 2017
    Politics

    A Salon of One’s Own

    By Chaitali Sen  April 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Eleanor Roosevelt: “Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?”

    By Jill Lepore  April 27, 2017
    Q and A

    5 Questions for Granta’s Best Young American Novelists

    By Literary Hub  April 26, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Bookselling in the 21st Century: Misshelving and Microaggressions

    By Fabiana Cabral  April 25, 2017
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