World Literature Today Devotes Issue to Women, New Joan Didion Book, and More
Books to help understand Trump’s win; illustrations of bookstores around the world; contemporary Thai literature in translation; and other news.
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Writers React to Donald Trump, Book Trade “Dismayed” Over Election, and More
Science fiction novels with a political bent; literary podcasts; former National Book Award judge argues against the awards’ recent changes; and other news.
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Writers on the Election, Whitman’s Descendants, and More
Little Free Library celebrates fifty thousand locations; researchers create algorithm for machine to determine a book’s genre by its cover; poet Jim Harrison’s final interview; and other news.
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Solmaz Sharif on War Poetics, Underrated American Poems, and More
Flaubert’s travel diary up for auction; sixteen books that explain this year’s election; PEN reports on missing Hong Kong booksellers; and other news.
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International Ghost Stories, Man Booker Winner Paul Beatty on History, and More
On the experiments that inspired T. C. Boyle’s new novel; the oldest continuously running bookstore in America; U.K. study finds school-age boys read “less thoroughly” than girls; and other news.
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American Writers Museum Names President, Anne Sexton’s Letters, and More
October book recommendations; National Book Award winner Phil Klay’s open letter to Donald Trump; how novelists write about climate change; and other news.
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Maya Angelou Documentary, Shirley Jackson’s Revival, and More
Viet Than Nguyen on cultural appropriation; Stephen King’s “singular weirdness”; Authors Guild condemns Google’s “commercial use of expressive authorship”; and other news.
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Subway Reads, the Linguistics of Clickbait, and More
PEN launches event series for Muslim American writers; Gene Wilder’s literary works; Cairo court upholds Egyptian writer’s prison sentence; and other news.
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Silent Book Clubs, the Poetry Marathon, and More
WNYC talks to poet Evie Shockley about her #DearPresident message; on great sentences; librarians’ top-ten September books; and other news.
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President Obama’s Summer Reading List, Brave New World Series, and More
Fact-checking nonfiction books; a cognitive psychologist’s answer to the listening vs. reading debate; Wallace Stevens and Trump supporters; and other news.
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