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The Legend of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

By Phillip Lopate

The War on Terror Through the Eyes of Queer Afghan Refugees

By Steven W. Thrasher

Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”

By Harlan Coben

On the Forgotten Enslavement of Native Americans and Its Central Role in US History

By Linford D. Fisher

On the Existential Threat of Palestinian Kites to Colonial Power

By Ahmad Ibsais

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Tom Cole on Autofiction, Shame-Based Writing, and Being an Unreliable Narrator

By Morgan Bassichis

“Late Summer in the Anthropocene,” a Poem by Marcus Wicker

By Marcus Wicker

My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up?

By Kristen Arnett

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Neither Bone Nor Stone: Why the US Constitution Was Meant to be Amended

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How I Learned to Love My Dog By Observing His Behavior

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Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert

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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE

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Crime Reads

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The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Fall 2026

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8 Great Tales That Feature Supernatural and Otherworldly Houses

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The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026

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What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom

By Wendy Lesser

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

By Leanne Ogasawara

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him

By Brian Dillon

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

By The Zetkin Collective

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

By Louise Brangan

Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell

By Samaa Khullar

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

By Alexander Lee

This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”

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Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

By Ericka Beckman