What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

By Brian Laidlaw | November 9, 2018

What a Woman Must Do to Become King

What a Woman Must Do to Become King

On the Rise of Neferusobek, Egypt's First Female Ruler

By Kara Cooney | November 8, 2018

Meet National Book Award Finalist Sarah Smarsh

Meet National Book Award Finalist Sarah Smarsh

The Author of Heartland on the Upside of Writer's Block

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2018

Meet National Book Award Finalist Adam Winkler

Meet National Book Award Finalist Adam Winkler

The Author of We the Corporations on Bill Bryson, Israel Horovitz, and the Supreme Court

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2018

Rare Booksellers Rallied Against An Amazon-Owned Company and Won

Rare Booksellers Rallied Against An Amazon-Owned Company and Won

What Inspired an Unprecedented Protest from Book Dealers Around the World?

By Corinne Segal | November 7, 2018

What Happens When You

What Happens When You "Accidentally" Destroy a Library Book?

Please Don't Use Pizza as a Bookmark. That's Bad.

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Silicon Valley's Radical New Idea: Treat Employees Well

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The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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Meet National Book Award Finalist Victoria Johnson

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Meet National Book Award Finalist Colin G. Calloway

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The Author of The Indian World of George Washington on Writing While Teaching

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How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

On the Dark Tradition of American Populism

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Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

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English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

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Amid the Roman Ruins and the Search for a Lost City

By Ferdinand Addis | November 6, 2018

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

On Otherness, Analysis, and What I Learned in Clown School

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Meet National Book Award Finalist Justin Phillip Reed

Meet National Book Award Finalist Justin Phillip Reed

The Author of Indecency on What Compels Him

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How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

Donna Cheng on Designing for Carola Lovering's Tell Me Lies

By Donna Cheng | November 5, 2018

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