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Lucy Sante Is the Same Writer She Has Always Been

Victor LaValle Likes to Stare Directly at His Deepest Fears

Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner

Ken Burns Wishes More People Would Call Willa Cather a Great American Novelist

Even Before Social Q’s, Philip Galanes Liked Giving Advice

There’s More Than One Way to Ban a Book

Geraldine Brooks Had an Unpleasant Surprise When She Taught at Harvard

What Should I Read This Summer?

A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story is the One Facing Us.’

Substack’s Growth Spurt Brings Growing Pains

The Fortunes of MacKenzie Scott

Vote For the Best Book

The Novel that Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S.

‘Dune’ Owes Its Climate Change Prophecies to Indigenous Tribes

How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps

Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’

Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies

Michael Moore joins other prominent writers on Substack.

A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom

Bring Back the Federal Writers’ Project