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One unexpected outcome of the pandemic was the way many communities rallied around their local bookstores. Read more at Boston.com.

More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”

Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?

Five centuries of white supremacist terror: not just a past to which we are ineluctably fastened, but a present which produces us, albeit in differing orders of magnitude and vulnerability. The United States has long maintained the fiction that this country had molted its foundational violence, and yet, just as your skin sheds daily only to live dispersed atop your furniture and knick-knacks, so too does the grime of history make up the loam in which a person is destined to flourish, struggle, or wither. The work of Saidiya Hartman has charted a path in and through the social arrangements prod...

The annual presentation of PEN America’s literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year. A collage of some 55 finalists in the PEN America 2021 Literary Awards program. Image: PEN America Nossel: ‘This Year of Tumult and Torment’ In our previews of the PEN America Literary Award finalists and the program’s Career Achievement Prize recipients, Publishing Perspectives readers looked at one of the more complex annual presentations of a broad range of disparate awards. Funded by many generous  donors and presented on varying schedules, the program...