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These are the books Barack Obama thinks you should read this summer.

These are the books Barack Obama thinks you should read this summer.

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2021

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

AKA the Time George Lucas Disowned a Star Wars Production

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross | July 12, 2021

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Elizabeth Greenwood On the People Who Seek Relationships with the Incarcerated

By Elizabeth Greenwood | July 12, 2021

Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

“Out here, I am huge. Expansive.”

By Carrot Quinn | July 12, 2021

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

Joyce Maynard on Finding Compassion Through the Distance of Fiction

By Joyce Maynard | July 12, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

By Emil’ Keme | July 12, 2021

How America’s Lack of Basic Support is Shortening Lives

By Keen On | July 12, 2021

Kimberly Ruffin Shares Her Guided Practice of Walking Through the Forest

By Emergence Magazine | July 12, 2021

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

From the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 12, 2021

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | July 9, 2021

Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

By Walker Caplan | July 9, 2021

Javier Bardem is your new Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.

Javier Bardem is your new Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.

By Dan Sheehan | July 9, 2021

13 books perfectly summed up with one-liners from <em>Gilmore Girls</em>.

13 books perfectly summed up with one-liners from Gilmore Girls.

By Katie Yee | July 9, 2021

<em>Sleeping or Dead?</em> and other hilarious

Sleeping or Dead? and other hilarious "practical books for librarians" in pulp classic form.

By Emily Temple | July 9, 2021

"She died sniffing life, and enjoying it." Read E.B. White's witty obituary for his dog Daisy.

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 9, 2021

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