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New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.
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Isabella Hammad was named winner of the prize for Enter Ghost, a story of the connection to be found in family and shared resistance.
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A career-spanning selection of C.K. Williams underscores his restless virtuosity.
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Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
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Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June Via Caroline Claeys
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"I was always working on a theory of America." "I was always working on a theory of America."
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Daniel Dennett is not only one of the most distinguished philosophers of mind working today, he also writes great books. As he publishes his memoir, I’ve Been Thinking, he talks us through some of the books that most influenced him, including two by evolutionary biologists.
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The best books on the decline and fall of empires, societal collapse, and the end of the world—selected by Fall of Civilization's Paul Cooper
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For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests.
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Following the death of American comic book retailer and historian Robert Beerbohm on March 27, 2024, we reached out to notable comics academics, writers and historians and asked them to share their memories of him.
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Author Édouard Louis was asked if he thought someone lacking his experience of homophobia could stage a theater adaptation of one of his books. In his response, he argues against a restrictive idea of identity as a property some of us own.
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Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15, 1917. He had been busy acting, editing the hospital magazine, arguing with his mother by letter about whether Ch…
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The Essay was excerpted from Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets by Michael Korda, 2024.
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Out of over a thousand entrants, The American Academy in Rome has selected 31 artists and academics to receive their Rome Prize, a residency fellowship that provides a stipend as well as a place to…
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Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.
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More details about the book from the publisher: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo213447492.html?te=1&nl=race%2Frelated&emc=edit_rr_20240426
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David Jonsson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Tobias Menzies, Anya Chalotra, Antonia Thomas and Dua Lipa read extracts from the six books on our shortlist in these extraordinary new films
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An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years.
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By Marcello Di Cintio For the past six months, since the most recent horrors in Gaza began, I’ve been using my Gazan friends’ Facebook activity as proof-of-life. I begin to worry when several days…
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While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income
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Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
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