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October 26, 2020
Amanda Anderson in conversation with Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University) on the challenges facing the humanities during Covid-19. We discuss the job market crisis for...
October 12, 2020
This week join National Humanities Center President Robert Newman and writer and scholar David Bromwich to discuss his book, American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They...
Louise Gluck
October 8, 2020
Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature ”for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Washington...
September 23, 2020
Naima Coster is the author of two novels. Her debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist...
Samuel Delany
September 14, 2020
With this year’s Windham-Campbell festival cancelled due to the pandemic, the prize’s organizers have found a new way to honor the eight recipients and their craft. The...
September 9, 2020
An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob Woodward. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new...
September 4, 2020
Susan Choi’s “Flashlight” is the fiction piece in September 7, 2020’s issue of The New Yorker. One thing I will always be grateful to your mother for—she taught you to...