What Happens When We Are <br>Deprived of Touch?

What Happens When We Are
Deprived of Touch?

Sushma Subramanian on the Paradoxes of Solitude and Intimacy

By Sushma Subramanian | February 22, 2021

How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker in Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | February 22, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Finalists: <em>Golem Girl</em> by Riva Lehrer

This Year’s NBCC Finalists: Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer

Jacob M. Appel on One of the Finalists for Autobiography

By Jacob M. Appel | February 22, 2021

Got $18 million dollars lying around? Wanna buy Steinbeck's house?

Got $18 million dollars lying around? Wanna buy Steinbeck's house?

By Dan Sheehan | February 19, 2021

What I desperately miss about the book industry’s best annual gathering.

What I desperately miss about the book industry’s best annual gathering.

By Jonny Diamond | February 19, 2021

Cover reveal: <em>Oxford American'</em>s Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

Cover reveal: Oxford American's Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

By Vanessa Willoughby | February 19, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | February 19, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press:
Milkweed Editions

By Corinne Segal | February 19, 2021

Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

By Janet Skeslien Charles | February 19, 2021

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Kathryn Nuernberger Considers Society's Failure to Protect Victims, Then and Now

By Kathryn Nuernberger | February 19, 2021

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

Jeremy Atherton Lin on Finding Sites of Literary Sociability

By Jeremy Atherton Lin | February 19, 2021

How Walmart's Early Exploitation of Women Kickstarted an Economy of Underpaid Workers

How Walmart's Early Exploitation of Women Kickstarted an Economy of Underpaid Workers

Sarah Jaffe in Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | February 19, 2021

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

Michelle D. Commander Unearths the Buried Lives of Her Formerly Enslaved Ancestors

By Michelle D. Commander | February 19, 2021

A Brief History of Women’s Liberation Movements in America

A Brief History of Women’s Liberation Movements in America

Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore Map Genealogies 
of Feminist Activism

By Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore | February 19, 2021

Elizabeth McCulloch on the Ecological Sins of Floridians

Elizabeth McCulloch on the Ecological Sins of Floridians

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | February 19, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>here is the sweet hand</em> by francine j. harris

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris

Megan Labrise on One of the Finalists for Poetry

By Megan Labrise | February 19, 2021

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