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    By Sylvia Sukop  November 27, 2018
    Essay

    Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

    By Inger Christensen  November 27, 2018
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    By Emily Temple  November 26, 2018
    Essay

    The Showgirl Who Discovered Lolita

    By Sarah Weinman  November 26, 2018
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    Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

    By Joshua Sperling  November 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    It’s Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

    By Richard Beard  November 26, 2018
    Conversations

    How Do You Make Art From Walking and Looking?

    By Hal Foster and Richard Serra  November 26, 2018
    Design

    32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

    By Emily Temple  November 21, 2018
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    For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

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    Grief and Recovery in Thousand Oaks

    By Liska Jacobs  November 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    Not Just a German Word: A Brief History of Schadenfreude

    By Tiffany Watt Smith  November 21, 2018
    Essay

    On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé’s Sexual Politics

    By Omise'eke Tinsley  November 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

    By Halldór Guðmundsson  November 21, 2018
    Events

    Thinking Outside the Windowboxes: At the Nantucket Book Festival

    By Bethanne Patrick  November 21, 2018
    Feature

    Here It Is! Alice B. Toklas’s Recipe for Hash Brownies

    By Emily Temple  November 20, 2018
    Hair of the Dog

    Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

    By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall  November 20, 2018
    Biography

    On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

    By Bethany Layne and David Lodge  November 20, 2018
    Conversations

    Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

    By Mikita Brottman  November 20, 2018
    Dictators

    On the Manufactured “Sex Appeal” of Vladimir Putin

    By Lara Vapnyar  November 20, 2018
    Feature

    The Good, The Bad, and The Delicious: 20 Unexpected Literary Cookbooks

    By Emily Temple  November 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

    By Jack Zipes and Édouard Laboulaye  November 19, 2018
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    From Adderall to Opioids, the Personal Side of an American Tragedy

    By Chris McGreal  November 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

    By Malaika wa Azania  November 19, 2018
    Feature

    Literary Twitter’s Best Responses to Jonathan Franzen’s Rules for Writing

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 16, 2018
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