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Before the pandemic trapped me in my apartment, I liked looking at houses. I wouldn’t call it a passion for architecture by any means. In practice, it was just me absorbing HGTV from the gym TV while running on the elliptical. This turned into an obsession with scrolling through pictures of homes on Instagram. I wasn’t in the market, but I couldn’t stop looking at houses. When the gyms closed, I started running outside. That came with a harsh discovery that I had no vocabulary for architecture. In New Orleans,...

I am a Christian writing about books to teach you about Judaism. This is important. You see, just as it is not the responsibility of people of color to teach white people about racism or for queer people to educate the straights, it is not on Jewish people to enlighten us Christians. (I did, however, ask some Jewish Rioters to look at this post before publishing. But if I made any errors, it’s on me.) I’ve heard enough blah blah blah about how the United States is a Christian nation...

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Pen America has released longlists for their variety of literary awards. There are some expected choices and a few surprises, too. Notably, this is the first year that a single book appears on three lists: Sharks in the Time of Saviors, the debut novel from Kawai Strong Washburn, is longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and the PEN Open Book Award. .container .newsletter-signup { background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #fffab9, #1fedff 95%)} Book Deals Newsletter Sign up for our Book Deals newsletter and get up...