August 30, 2015

REVIEW – Abortion Without Apology

August 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen

By Dorothy Samuels

Abortion rights are in trouble in part because the pro-choice community fell down on the job

August 17, 2015

REVIEW — The Tragedy of American Voting Rights

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick

by Adam Cohen

Viewed in its totality, the voting rights story is not one of triumph, but of tragedy.

August 17, 2015

ESSAY — Saul Bellow for a New Generation

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick

by Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld

Bellow’s work reads like the journal of an old relative, full of winks and familiar tragedies.

August 17, 2015

READ THIS — A Manual for Cleaning Women

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick

by Elizabeth Taylor

Compassionate curiosity and prose that crackles and feels alert to life.

August 17, 2015

RANT — Decorating 451: Books as (Little Loved) Objects

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick

by Leah Eskin

For books, the rapture has arrived.

August 17, 2015

ASK THE NATIONAL — Book Podcasts

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick

What podcasts about books should I be listening to?

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