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What We Need: Anuradha Roy on Animals and Touch in Lockdown
"The longer we are denied what we took for granted, the more intensely we yearn for it."
‘Do You Know Alex Oreille’: New Fiction from Katie Kitamura
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How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony
Jan Swafford on the Influence of Leopold Mozart on
His Precocious Son
The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing
"Big Manhattan book publishers publish hundreds of authors each year, but in their eyes, only a very few really matter."
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Saul Friedländer on the Many Functions of the Most Elusive
Figure in French Literature
Emily Temple on Trippy Fiction and Summer Camps as Cults
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On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel
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Creating by Hand
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Botany and Revolution: How 18th-Century Naturalists Discouraged Ideas of Liberty
From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson
The Best Reviewed Fiction
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Featuring Jenny Offill, Garth Greenwell, Hillary Mantel, Elena Ferrante, and more
American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz, Read by Charlie Thurston
Explore the World of Artisan Cheese in America
Mute Force: Why #NativeTwitter Couldn’t Stop Talking About Baby Yoda
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A Totally Fictional Story by Marion Winik Featuring
a Martin Amis Cameo
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