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    Anthropology

    What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

    By Dimitris Xygalatas  September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    What a Scandalous 1922 Murder Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With True Crime

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    Keen On

    How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

    By Keen On  September 14, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Susan Choi on the Range of Language’s Possibilities in Raymond Carver and Grace Paley

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck, Read by Jason Culp

    By Behind the Mic   September 14, 2022
    Ursa

    Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton Answer Your Questions About Writing and Storytelling

    By Ursa   September 14, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    Read William Faulkner’s 1952 Adulation of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    By Book Marks  September 13, 2022
    Books

    Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

    By Randall Munroe  September 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2022
    On Poetry

    Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

    By Matthew Zapruder  September 13, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 13, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

    By I'm a Writer But   September 13, 2022
    Experimental Fiction

    Deforming Medium: A Reading List of Experimental Points of View

    By Jonathan Dee  September 13, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves, Read by Janine Birkett

    By Behind the Mic   September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    How Seriously Should We Consider the January 6 Insurrection As a Threat to the American Republic?

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    Keen On

    How Writers Can Use Both Memory and Forgetting to Improve Their Work

    By Keen On  September 13, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Introducing The Writers Institute, a Deep-Dive Into the Audio Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

    By The Writers Institute  September 13, 2022
    American Politics

    Luke Mogelson on the Far-Right, the Militia Movement, and the Threat of Trumpism

    By Luke Mogelson  September 12, 2022
    Craft

    “I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

    By Jim Harrison  September 12, 2022
    On Writing

    Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects

    By Dashiel Carrera  September 12, 2022
    Neuroscience

    Gut Feelings: How Does Intuition Work, Anyway?

    By Elaine Fox  September 12, 2022
    Mexican History

    Heroes or Traitors? Writing the Story of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the Mexican-American War

    By Reyna Grande  September 12, 2022
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