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    The Invention of Mid-Century Cool

    By Loren Glass  October 16, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of Whales

    By Blair Beusman  October 16, 2015
    Whales

    There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket

    By Ben Shattuck  October 16, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

    By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
    Memoir

    War of the Whales: A True Story

    By Joshua Horwitz  October 16, 2015
    Design

    Coloring the Great Black & White Whale

    By Literary Hub  October 16, 2015
    Listicle

    18 Writers Who Actually Almost Finished Reading Moby Dick

    By Queen Mob  October 16, 2015
    In Memoriam

    A Few Inadequate Words about Carol Janeway

    By Leon Wieseltier  October 15, 2015
    Politics

    The First Democratic Party Debate: A Spinglish-English Translation

    By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf  October 15, 2015
    Design

    Judging the National Book Award Shortlisters By Their Covers

    By Brian Gresko  October 14, 2015
    Essay

    Hitler-Spotting at the Frankfurt Bookfair

    By Tara Bray Smith  October 14, 2015
    Biography

    A Woman Alone in China

    By Virginia Pye  October 14, 2015
    What to Read

    The Staff Shelf: Riverbend Books

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 14, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Children of Chernobyl, In Their Own Words

    By Svetlana Alexievich  October 13, 2015
    Travel

    Is Topeka the Most Poetic City in America?

    By Amy Brady  October 13, 2015
    Essay

    The Story of a Murder

    By Andrea Kleine  October 13, 2015
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Riverbend Books

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 13, 2015
    Biography

    The Original Native American Memoirist

    By Charles Eastman  October 12, 2015
    Conversations

    How to Make Readings Not Boring

    By Literary Hub  October 9, 2015
    Feature

    A Literary Long Weekend in Baltimore

    By Jen Michalski  October 9, 2015
    Excerpts

    Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 9, 2015
    Essay

    The Southern Festival of Books: Better Than Christmas

    By Alice Randall  October 9, 2015
    Criticism

    Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

    By Zinzi Clemmons  October 8, 2015
    Biography

    The Odd, True Love of Vic Chesnutt and Kristin Hersh

    By Amanda Petrusich  October 8, 2015
    History

    The Unseen Theft of America’s Literary History

    By Travis McDade  October 8, 2015
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