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Capturing the Strange Terror of the World: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August
David Woo Recommends Rae Armantrout, Daniel Borzutzky, Andrea Cohen, and More
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“The idea of Palestinians as ghosts—haunting history, the land, Israelis themselves—runs through Hammad’s novel.”
Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer on the Rise of Romance
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Falling in Love With Life
This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso
July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Featuring New Titles by Susannah Gibson, Anne Applebaum, Margalit Fox, and More
July’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Featuring New Titles by Kevin Barry, Lev Grossman, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and More
On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books
Keith Gandal Zen on the Art of Losing Badly
Returning to the Scene: What’s Left of Café Loup, Legendary NYC Literary Haunt?
Erin Edmison Looks Back From Her Customary Spot at the Bar
Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier on America's Youth-Obsessed Culture
A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention
Clara Bingham Chronicles the Failed Fight to Include Abortion Rights in the Party’s Platform
The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature
Daisy Dunn on Sappho's Genre-Defying Verses and the Invention of the Term “Lesbian”
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