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    Essay

    Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

    By Haruki Murakami  October 4, 2017
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    10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

    By Emily Temple  October 4, 2017
    Conversations

    A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Power, Prequels, and Pulitzer Winners

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    Awards

    Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

    By Emily Temple  October 3, 2017
    Memoir

    Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 3, 2017
    News

    On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

    By Christine Ro  October 2, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

    By Armistead Maupin  October 2, 2017
    Criticism

    Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

    By Craig Hubert  September 29, 2017
    Events

    Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

    By Catherine Woodard  September 29, 2017
    Listicle

    Literary Highlights from Everyone’s Favorite Wedding Column

    By Emily Temple  September 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Mess We’re In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos

    By Odd Arne Westad  September 28, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Is the Rust Belt Ruined or in a Renaissance? And Who Gets to Say?

    By Amanda Arnold  September 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    How New Orleans Became the Paris of the Mississippi

    By Peter J Marina  September 28, 2017
    Music

    10 Songs for J.G. Ballard’s Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

    By Emily Temple  September 27, 2017
    Op-Ed

    What We Can Learn from “Ordinary” Nazis

    By Jessica Shattuck  September 27, 2017
    Politics

    Pussy Riot: Let’s Prick Putin’s Ass with a Pin

    By Maria Alyokhina  September 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

    By Fiona Alison Duncan  September 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Paradox of a Hurricane: Death and Love Its Wake

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 26, 2017
    Did you know?

    8 Notable Attempts to Hack the New York Times Bestseller List

    By Emily Temple  September 26, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Riding Out Hurricane Irma with a 900-Page Book

    By Lorraine Berry  September 26, 2017
    History

    Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    Speaking Truth to Power is as American as Apple Pie

    By Marcus Rediker  September 26, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Religion, Refugees, and Odysseys

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 26, 2017
    Politics

    How One Authoritarian Regime Made Another One Look Good

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 25, 2017
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