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    Graphic Memoir

    Roz Chast, Like All of Us, Has Recurring Dreams

    From Her New Graphic Memoir I Must Be Dreaming

     
    By Roz Chast  October 25, 2023
    Drugs

    Panacea or Problematic Hype?: The Uncertain Promises of Ketamine Therapy

    By Andy Mitchell  October 25, 2023
    Reading List

    Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

    By Jessica Elefante  October 25, 2023
    Fascism

    What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

    By Alberto Toscano  October 25, 2023
    Keen On

    Alexander Sammen on the Sordid History of the Avocado

    By Keen On  October 25, 2023
    The Hub

    Read the last words of writer Heba Abu Nada, who was killed last week by an Israeli airstrike.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 24, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Bob Dylan

    How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

    By Lucy Sante  October 24, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
    Mushrooms

    Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

    By Margaret Renkl  October 24, 2023
    Drinking

    Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America’s Greatest Invention, the Martini

    A Look at Patricia Highsmith, Norman Mailer, Gary Shteyngart, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and More

    By Dwight Garner  October 25, 2023
    Keen On

    Richard Rhodes on E.O. Wilson and Nature

    By Keen On  October 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Trond Undheim Tells Andrew Keen How to Prevent the End of the World

    By Keen On  October 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards.

    By Literary Hub  October 23, 2023
    Queens

    How Anne Boleyn Captured Our Collective Imagination

    John Guy and Julia Fox on the Death and Afterlife of Tudor England's Most Famous Queen

    By John Guy and Julia Fox  October 23, 2023
    Audiobook Narration

    Do I Sound Asian? Do I Sound Gay? Curtis Chin on Finding His Voice While Narrating His Memoir

    By Curtis Chin  October 23, 2023
    Language

    What is Left Unsaid: How Some Words Do—Or Don’t—Make It Into Print

    By Sarah Ogilvie  October 23, 2023
    Craft of Globemaking

    On the Artisanal Craft of Making a Globe

    By Peter Bellerby  October 23, 2023
    On Memoir

    Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O’Connor

    Allyson McCabe on the Power of Accepting that a Memoir May Contain Contradictions

    By Allyson McCabe  October 23, 2023
    FOMO

    How the Stoics Dealt With FOMO

    By Brigid Delaney  October 23, 2023
    What to Watch

    On Lessons in Chemistry and the Reign of Extraordinary Women

    By Rosalynn Tyo  October 23, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

    By History of Literature  October 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Angela C. Sutton on the Pirate Battle That Birthed American Slavery

    In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    By Keen On  October 23, 2023
    What to Watch

    Despite Some Pitfalls, Killers of the Flower Moon Swells with Humanity and Heart

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 20, 2023
    Graphic Memoir

    Creating From Chaos: On Life During and After Art School

    By Lila Ash  October 20, 2023
    Aliens?

    UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

    By Adam Frank  October 24, 2023
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