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    News

    Black Mirror to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

    By Emily Temple  June 16, 2017
    Archives

    14 Curious Telegrams from (and to) Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  June 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Mysteries of the Pancreas: Of the Body, Cancer, and Death

    By Wendy Call  June 15, 2017
    Feature

    Librarians of the 21st: The Ultimate Superheroes of Research

    By Stefanie Maclin-Hurd  June 15, 2017
    Criticism

    What Would Kurt Vonnegut Think of Donald Trump?

    By Marc Leeds  June 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Case of Mistaken Identity Behind Legends of the Fall

    By Jamie Harrison  June 14, 2017
    Events

    At the World’s Preeminent Feminist Speculative Fiction Convention

    By Claire Light  June 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Small Mercies of Traveling With a Baby

    By Camille T. Dungy  June 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Rescuing the Treasures of a Dead Jazz Legend

    By John Corbett  June 13, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Moths, Memoir, and Thousand-Mile Walks

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home

    By Julia Fierro  June 12, 2017
    How to...

    How to Annotate the World: A Proposal for Literary Geo-Tagging

    By Adam Bonislawski  June 12, 2017
    History

    The Hollow Mythology of Ronald Reagan

    By Tim Mohr  June 12, 2017
    Archives

    A Look Inside James Baldwin’s 1,884 Page FBI File

    By William J. Maxwell  June 12, 2017
    Festivals

    Radical Hope: The Bay Area Book Festival in Four Acts

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    On 50 Years of Loving, That Most Radical of Acts

     June 12, 2017
    News

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is Writing a Movie & Terry Gilliam Might Finish Don Quixote

    By Emily Temple  June 9, 2017
    History

    The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

    By Tobias Carroll  June 9, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When All of Your Family Heirlooms are Stories

    By Gina Sorell  June 9, 2017
    Poets

    Walter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem

    By Walter Mosley  June 8, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Worst Ever First Day on the Job

    By Finn Murphy  June 8, 2017
    In Memoriam

    A Dorothy Parker Quip for Every Occasion

    By Emily Temple  June 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Where Are the Great Italian Women Writers?

    By Jeanne Bonner  June 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    Why Gwendolyn Brooks Will Live On Forever

    By Angela Jackson  June 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Every Ending is a Kind of Apocalypse: On Belief and The Leftovers

    By Emily Harnett  June 6, 2017
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