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Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

Natalie Baszile on Land Ownership, Food Justice, and Community Ties

By Natalie Baszile | April 12, 2021

What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

Melissa Scholes Young on Three Generations of American Dreaming

By Melissa Scholes Young | April 12, 2021

Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 12, 2021

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

Ayanna Thompson Considers the History of Minstrelsy, Racial Tropes, and the White Gaze

By Ayanna Thompson | April 12, 2021

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 12th to April 16th

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, April 12th to April 16th

Featuring Maaza Mengiste, Namwali Serpell, Kaitlyn Greenidge,
and More 

By Rasheeda Saka | April 12, 2021

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

Shanna Greene Benjamin on the Broader Narrative of
Black Women’s Intellectualism

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • The Palm House
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Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | April 9, 2021

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

Time to rewatch this iconic performance of Where the Wild Things Are.

By Dan Sheehan | April 9, 2021

"Nobody ever made fun of him, but I did." Orson Welles on his friendship with Hemingway.

By Emily Temple | April 9, 2021

Here's the shortlist for NYPL's 2021 Young Lions Fiction award.

Here's the shortlist for NYPL's 2021 Young Lions Fiction award.

By Emily Temple | April 9, 2021

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

From Nate Powell’s Graphic Novel, Save It For Later

By Nate Powell | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
Chateau de Chavaniac

By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

Jessica Bacal Considers How Writers and Artists Deal
with Hearing “No”

By Jessica Bacal | April 9, 2021

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

Jasmin Darznik on the Beginnings of a Legendary Photographer

By Jasmin Darznik | April 9, 2021

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