How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

Fumi Okiji on the Practice of Listening and the Magic of an Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter

By Fumi Okiji | June 3, 2021

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

Daniel Levin on the Hopelessness of Syria’s War Economy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | June 3, 2021

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

Joe Lemire Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 3, 2021

Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | June 3, 2021

Justice for Clubber Lang: Kiese Laymon on a Cast-Off American Hero

Justice for Clubber Lang: Kiese Laymon on a Cast-Off American Hero

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | June 3, 2021

David Diop's <em>At Night All Blood is Black</em> has won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black has won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

By Dan Sheehan | June 2, 2021

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Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

By Walker Caplan | June 2, 2021

Has anyone seen this Bible-eating bookstore customer?

By Walker Caplan | June 2, 2021

A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

By Jonny Diamond | June 2, 2021

Yuka Igarashi's first acquisition at Graywolf is a very cool-sounding novel by Lucy Ives. 

Yuka Igarashi's first acquisition at Graywolf is a very cool-sounding novel by Lucy Ives. 

By Emily Temple | June 2, 2021

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

Jess McHugh on the Complicated Legacy of Betty Crocker

By Jess McHugh | June 2, 2021

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2021

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Philip Ball: “Myths are promiscuous; they were postmodern before the concept existed.”

By Philip Ball | June 2, 2021

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

Teresa Fazio Watches the Documentary The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien

By Teresa Fazio | June 2, 2021

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Lauren Aguirre on Recovering Past Experiences and Forming Fake Ones

By Lauren Aguirre | June 2, 2021

How <em>Mean Girls</em> Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

Grace Perry on Her High School Years, Catholicism, and the 2004 Teen Classic

By Grace Perry | June 2, 2021

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