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    I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

    By Claire Messud  December 14, 2016
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    A New Law Is Causing Problems for California Booksellers

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2016
    Feature

    Watch the Creepy 1969 Short Film Adaptation of “The Lottery”

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2016
    Criticism

    Did America Just Elect Baron Munchausen?

    By Tobias Carroll  December 14, 2016
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    Watch Shirley Hazzard’s Brilliance in Action

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2016
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    Book Marks Gets a Makeover

    By Andy Hunter  December 13, 2016
    Speech

    Even Bob Dylan Doesn’t Think His Songs Are Literature

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Notes from the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power

    By Summer Brennan  December 9, 2016
    Art

    Art Inspired by the Great Angela Carter

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Two Books That Saved My Young Life

    By Keah Brown  December 8, 2016
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    Reading Out Loud in a Time of Terror

    By Sabine Heinlein  December 8, 2016
    Personal Essay

    On Innocence, Internment, and Resistance with an Open Heart

    By Marie Mutsuki Mockett  December 8, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Patriotism: A Schooling (and Unschooling)

    By Jessica Holmes  December 7, 2016
    Excerpts

    Maybe It’s Time to Leave the Earth…

    By Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix  December 2, 2016
    Feature

    8 Great Movies Based on Unusual Literary Source Material

    By Emily Temple  December 2, 2016
    Excerpts

    Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

    By Trevor Noah  December 2, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Finding Empathy in the Face of Hate

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 30, 2016
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    The Harlem Bookstore Committed to Revolutionary Politics

    By Dwyer Murphy  November 30, 2016
    Feature

    The Ways in Which I’d Like to Get Attacked By a Bear

    By Steven Church  November 30, 2016
    What to Read

    Baffling Omissions from the NY Times’ 100 Notable Books List

    By Emily Temple  November 29, 2016
    Feature

    Bookselling in the 21st Century: Going Way Beyond the Call of Duty

    By Marion Abbott  November 29, 2016
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    A Tour of Paris, 1917, With Blaise Cendrars

    By Literary Hub  November 29, 2016
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    On Fidel Castro’s Friendships With Literary Giants

    By Emily Temple  November 28, 2016
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