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    Style

    Celebrities: They’re Not Just Like Us

    By Emily Harnett  July 19, 2017
    Photography

    On Fantasy, Narrative, and Playing Dress Up for the Camera

    By Kristine Somerville  July 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering

    By Rebecca Solnit  July 19, 2017
    History

    A Great Musical Migration: How the Blues Headed North

    By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff  July 19, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up As An Untouchable

    By Sujatha Gidla  July 18, 2017
    Excerpts

    Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

    By Devoney Looser  July 18, 2017
    Awards

    Daniel Handler Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize

    By Daniel Handler  July 18, 2017
    Criticism

    Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

    By Emily Temple  July 18, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Returns, Refugees, and Religious Cults

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 18, 2017
    Awards

    Announcing the Judges for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Awards

    By Literary Hub  July 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

    By Sarah Sentilles  July 17, 2017
    Where to Go

    A Night with Virginia Woolf at America’s Strangest Literary Hotel

    By Claire Luchette  July 14, 2017
    How to read in public

    Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

    By Susan Harlan  July 14, 2017
    Film

    Do We Need an Adaptation of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?

    By Emily Temple  July 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On Marvel’s First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

    By Anna F. Peppard  July 13, 2017
    Politics

    Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

    By Emily Temple  July 12, 2017
    Politics

    Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

    By Howard Zinn  July 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

    By Laura Dassow Walls  July 12, 2017
    Archives

    Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau’s Observations on Animals, Illustrated

    By Henry David Thoreau  July 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

    By Richard Higgins  July 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Visiting the Real America, Where Seven-Year-Olds Translate Don Quixote

    By Francisco Goldman  July 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

    By Philippe Sands  July 11, 2017
    Racism

    When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

    By Brian Platzer  July 11, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: It Girls, Infidelity, and Illness

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

    By Michelle Kuo  July 10, 2017
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