Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess

By Jennifer Howard | September 2, 2020

WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

Episode Six of the Mighty SONG Writers Video Series

By Literary Hub | September 2, 2020

Inclusivity, Sustainability, and... Disaster? Your Climate Readings for September

Inclusivity, Sustainability, and... Disaster? Your Climate Readings for September

Climate Activist and Reporter Amy Brady Recommends Five New Books

By Amy Brady | September 2, 2020

Laura Kolbe on How COVID-19 is Rewriting the Story of Healthcare

Laura Kolbe on How COVID-19 is Rewriting the Story of Healthcare

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | September 2, 2020

Obsession and Desire in an Ancient Assyrian Library

Obsession and Desire in an Ancient Assyrian Library

Jo Marchant on the Discovery of a True Treasure

By Jo Marchant | September 2, 2020

Meeting Beethoven at an Italian Restaurant on the Upper <br>West Side

Meeting Beethoven at an Italian Restaurant on the Upper
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Patricia Morrisroe on Muses, Maestros, and Music

By Patricia Morrisroe | September 2, 2020

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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Defiance in Writing

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Kurt Andersen on the Morbid Symptoms of America

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If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

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<em>Thank You for Voting</em> by Erin Geiger Smith, read by Lisa Cordileone

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Ethan Hawke is now a book critic, thereby completing his Literary World Bingo Card.

Ethan Hawke is now a book critic, thereby completing his Literary World Bingo Card.

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Kaveh Akbar is <em>The Nation'</em>s new poetry editor.

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Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World's Most Repressive Lockdown

Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World's Most Repressive Lockdown

Narendra Modi is Treating His Citizens Like Hostile Occupying Forces

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Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

What We'll Never Know About Capitalism's Toxic Aftermath

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In Which Eliot Weinberger Catalogues a History of Hyacinths

In Which Eliot Weinberger Catalogues a History of Hyacinths

Hyacinth of Fara: "A martyr about whom nothing is known."

By Eliot Weinberger | September 1, 2020

Writing in Crisis: A Conversation Between Beirut and New York

Writing in Crisis: A Conversation Between Beirut and New York

Lina Mounzer and Mirene Arsanios on What It Is to Bear Witness

By Lina Mounzer and Mirene Arsanios | September 1, 2020

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