“The Voice of a Free People is Full of Turbulence and Grace.” Marilynne Robinson Accepts the Lewis H. Lapham Award

“The Voice of a Free People is Full of Turbulence and Grace.” Marilynne Robinson Accepts the Lewis H. Lapham Award

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The 16 Best Book Covers of November

The 16 Best Book Covers of November

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How Sex Workers Organize For Empowerment Across the Global South

How Sex Workers Organize For Empowerment Across the Global South

T.D. Tso on the Ongoing Struggle Against Victimhood Narratives and For Recognition and Rights

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What Was Literary Twitter? </br>*The Champion*

What Was Literary Twitter?
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How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

Natan Last on the Unlikely Origins of Simon & Schuster, Random House and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Why Do We Need to Dream?

Why Do We Need to Dream?

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Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children's show.

Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children's show.

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Dispatches from the dreamy launch party for a dating app’s literary magazine.

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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Championship Round*

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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

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What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

Oren Harman Explores the Philosophical and Literary Side of Metamorphosis

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The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

Joseph Luzzi on the Abandoned Children of 1400s Italy

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Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance

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