Getting Screwed

Read an excerpt from Alison Bass’s new book on sex workers and the law

Sinatra’s Century

A brief excerpt from David Lehman’s new book about Ol’ Blue Eyes

The Mushroom at the End of the World

An excerpt from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s new book about life in ecological crisis

A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking

A brief excerpt from Adam Briggle’s new book about fighting Big Oil in Texas

Workshops of Empire

A brief excerpt from Eric Bennett’s new book about creative writing and the Cold War

Changing the Subject

An excerpt from Sven Birkerts’s latest book about art in the Internet age

Strangers Drowning

A brief excerpt from Larissa MacFarquhar’s new book about extreme virtue

The Invention of Nature

A brief excerpt from Andrea Wulf’s new book about Alexander von Humboldt

A Strange Business

A brief excerpt from James Hamilton’s new history of art dealership

South Toward Home

A brief excerpt from a new book by Margaret Eby

On the Road

An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Betweenby Ceilidh Michelle

The Reading Hordes

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

<em>The Library: A Fragile History</em>Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

Writing in the Wings

An excerpt from A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O’Brien

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other TraumasDan O’Brien

The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

Jayne Ross

Second-Class Students No More

An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal

Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke UniversityTheodore D. Segal

Filling in the Blanks

An excerpt from How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

A Writer by Nature

An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Home Is Where the HOA Is

An excerpt from The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

The Sprawlby Jason Diamond

Tolerance in a Dark Place

An excerpt from Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A. Slotten

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS CrisisRoss A. Slotten

A Lifetime in Verse

An excerpt from Land’s End: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur

Land’s End: New and Selected Poemsby Gail Mazur

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