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How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

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On Grief and Growing Up in
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The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
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After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo

“With age comes the luxury of being unapologetically yourself. A silver lining, if you will, for the silver-haired.”
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Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal?

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How Accusations Against Black Academics Point to the Real End of “Woke 1.0”

By Brittany Allen

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

By M. C. Mah

Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?

By Joel Halldorf

On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

By Catherine Jagoe

11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

By Anne E. Fernald

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

By Florence Hazrat

Why I Hiked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart

By Earl Swift

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

By Literary Hub

Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari

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Everything But the Burden:
Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: August 2026

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Read an Original Review of All the King's Men on Its 80th Anniversary

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How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel

By Clarence A. Haynes

Am I the Asshole For Abandoning My First Love, Fantasy?

By Kristen Arnett

Russian Literature Does Not Belong to the Russian State

By Katherine Kelaidis

On the Carceral Ideology Underpinning the Anti-Trans Movement

By S. Lamble

As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism

By Thomas Meyer

From Marquis de Sade to Grand Theft Auto, a Brief History of Depravity

By Daisy Dixon

As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism

By Thomas Meyer

Eight Books to Read If You’re Still Thinking About the Roman Empire

By Michelle Berenfeld