February 17 – 21, 2025
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Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant
Jackie Kay on the Life, Nuanced Legacy, and Celebrity of the Empress of the Blues
On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette
Nancy Goldstone Recounts the Freedom of Life Before Marriage to Louis XVI
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, Dina Nayeri on Rabih Alameddine, and more
Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Megan Abbott on the Tortured, Insular Worlds of Ballet and Gymnastics
This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast
Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook
W. Scott Olsen Speaks to Tomasz Trzebiatowski, Joel Meyerowitz, Elysa Voshell, Olga Karlovac, and Phil Penman
What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?
Kei Miller: “I know how to tell stories, but how does one begin to tell silence?”
Nichole Perkins on Writing As a Way to Break Generational Curses
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
Zaina Arafat on How Sliding Doors Has Influenced Her Entire Way of Thinking
In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast
Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?
Josiah Hesse on the Racialized, Politicized History of Cannabis and the Fear-Mongering Agenda of Past Presidential Administrations
On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace
Princess Margaret: “We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.”
Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
“Extra, Extra! Completely Incoherent Writing Advice.” A Conversation with Lucie Elven
This Week on Otherppl with Brad Listi
WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo
In Conversation with Rob Chernow at Greenlight Bookstore
Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next
This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage
Farah Jasmine Griffin Considers James Baldwin and Beautifully Doomed Urban Couples in Literature
Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War
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