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The Evolving Monologue in My Head Desde Saturday, August 3rd

Oscar Villalon on the Shooting in El Paso

August 7, 2019

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"You Don't Know Anything." And Other Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

I don’t want to hear about your true love and your mama and your papa and your friends.

August 6, 2019

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Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

Hannah Allam on Survival, Heartbreak and Finding Laughter in a War Zone

August 6, 2019

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Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Elvia Wilk on a Feminist Understanding of Eerie Fiction

August 5, 2019

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What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

Julie Philips on Reproductive Justice and the Great 20th-Century Mother-Writers

August 5, 2019

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People Who Look Like the Paintings They're Looking At: A Photo Project

Photographer Stefan Draschan Quite Literally Waits for the Perfect Moment

August 2, 2019

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The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
Moby Dick

For Herman Melville, the Color White Could Be Horrifyingly Bleak

August 1, 2019

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The Encyclopedic Genius of
Melville's Masterpiece

On Moby Dick as a Way of Seeing the World

August 1, 2019

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If You Haven't Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here's a Pop-Up Book

Celebrate Herman Melville's 200th Birthday With Some Cool Whales

August 1, 2019

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The Perils of Designing a Cover for a Novel You Truly Love

Oliver Munday on Redesigning Fleur Jaeggy's 1989 Masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline

July 31, 2019

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Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
of Heart and Humor

Mike Schneider Remembers His Friend's Idiomatic Writing

July 29, 2019

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Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

An Appraisal (and Update) of Lit Hub's Climate Library

July 26, 2019

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Apocalyptic Prophets: Reading the Fine Print of Ammon Bundy's Divine Mandate

Sally Denton on the Cowboy Constitutionalists of the Oregon Militia Standoff

July 25, 2019

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On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

Howard Norman Reflects on the Collective Meaning of 416 Letters

July 24, 2019

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Behind the Myths of Scott and Zelda's Epic Romance

Eleanor Lanahan on Her Grandparents' Love Letters

July 23, 2019

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Dear Rick Moody: How Can I Manage My Self-Loathing?

Life Coach Rick Moody, Joined by Lidia Yuknavitch, on Body Image and the Power of Affirmations

July 23, 2019

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George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

Andrew Ervin Talks to Robert Macfarlane and Emily Wilson About the World's "Thin Places"

July 22, 2019

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Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

The Soviet Space Dogs Who Boldly Went Where They Were Told to Go

July 19, 2019

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40 Writer's Writers Whomst Readers Should Read

(But what about all the writer's writer's writer's writer's?)

July 19, 2019

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11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

Booze, Books, and Oh Yes, Bad Behavior

July 18, 2019

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Navigating the Dark Web of
American Racism

Alexandra Minna Stern on the Foundational Texts of White Nationalism

July 17, 2019

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In Which Colson Whitehead is Highly Concerned with the Exploration of Inner Space

And How Does Whitehead Defeat Writer's Block? Tackle the F*cker.

July 16, 2019

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Why Arctic Ice Matters Even More
Than You Think

Jon Gertner on the Disappearing Ice Sheet of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

July 15, 2019

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The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A Romantic Drama Against the Backdrop of History

By Anne Margaret Daniel August 7, 2019

False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy

Steven Greenhouse on a Different Kind of Worker Drone

By Steven Greenhouse August 7, 2019

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

Elliott Holt Revisits Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel, Foreign Affairs

By Elliott Holt August 7, 2019

InterLibrary Loan Will
Change Your Life

Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
the Apex of Human Civilization

By Nick Ripatrazone August 7, 2019

Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

Amanda Lee Koe on the Icon Who Found Her When She Needed It Most

By Amanda Lee Koe August 7, 2019

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

5 Books You May Have Missed

5 Books You May Have Missed in July

By Bethanne Patrick August 7, 2019

Cultural Criticism

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

By Tope Folarin August 7, 2019

Providing Help to Booksellers, When They Need It

BINC Started When Employees Wanted to Help a Sick Coworker

Providing Help to Booksellers, When They Need It

By Matt Grant August 7, 2019

Sarah Rose Etter on the Unintended Grotesque of Her Debut Novel

By Otherppl with Brad Listi August 7, 2019

Toni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos

By Literary Hub August 6, 2019

Donna Seaman on Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Reading to Be Enthralled

August 7, 2019 By Book Marks

The First Reviews of Every Toni Morrison Novel

August 6, 2019 By Book Marks

5 New Psychological Thrillers to Read This August

August 7, 2019 By Lisa Levy

The Rise and Fall and Restoration of Anna Katharine Green’s 'The Leavenworth Case'

August 7, 2019 By Curtis Evans

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