Sometimes You Need a Book To Just Make You Laugh: <br>A Reading List

Sometimes You Need a Book To Just Make You Laugh:
A Reading List

Matthew Norman Suggests Some Literary Comic Relief

By Matthew Norman | March 19, 2020

Big-hearted strangers turn Little Free Libraries into Little Free Pantries.

Big-hearted strangers turn Little Free Libraries into Little Free Pantries.

By Dan Sheehan | March 18, 2020

Need a distraction? Get lost in <em>The Paris Review</em>’s Author Index.

Need a distraction? Get lost in The Paris Review’s Author Index.

By Emily Temple | March 18, 2020

Bookshop.org to share 30 percent of each purchase with bookstores impacted by coronavirus shutdowns.

Bookshop.org to share 30 percent of each purchase with bookstores impacted by coronavirus shutdowns.

By Corinne Segal | March 18, 2020

On the Near Impossibility of Planning for a Viral Pandemic

On the Near Impossibility of Planning for a Viral Pandemic

Gerald Posner on What Went Wrong and What Comes Next

By Gerald Posner | March 18, 2020

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Letter From Rome: Dear Americans, Please Stay Inside

By Igiaba Scego | March 18, 2020

Flyover and Proud: TaraShea Nesbit Reckons With Home

By TaraShea Nesbit | March 18, 2020

Why Do Doctors Discredit Women's Pain?

By Sarah Ramey | March 18, 2020

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

Alex Halberstadt on the Life and Times of His Grandmother Tamara

By Alex Halberstadt | March 18, 2020

Sahar Khalifeh on Women and Education in Palestine

Sahar Khalifeh on Women and Education in Palestine

"Knowledge was our right, and we took the matter very seriously."

By Sahar Khalifeh | March 18, 2020

The author who accused Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of plagiarism owes her money.

The author who accused Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of plagiarism owes her money.

By Aaron Robertson | March 17, 2020

Celebrities are posting videos of themselves reading children's stories for quarantined kids.

Celebrities are posting videos of themselves reading children's stories for quarantined kids.

By Corinne Segal | March 17, 2020

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Lu Xun, Michael Ondaatje, and More

By Na Zhong | March 17, 2020

Great American Radicals: How Would Dorothy Day Vote<br> in 2020?

Great American Radicals: How Would Dorothy Day Vote
in 2020?

John Loughery on the Iconic Activist's Life and Legacy

By Jonny Diamond | March 17, 2020

What Six-Toed Cats Tell Us About Genetic Development

What Six-Toed Cats Tell Us About Genetic Development

Neil Shubin on What We Can Learn from Mutations

By Neil Shubin | March 17, 2020

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