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My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

Alison Dean Explores What It Means to Write, Drink, and
Fight to Feel Alive

 
By Alison Dean  May 6, 2021

When You’re the Target Audience for the Futurist Paintings of a Long-Dead Swedish Artist

Patrick Allington Can’t Stop Thinking About Hilma af Klint

 
By Patrick Allington  May 6, 2021

The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

Mother-Daughter Duo T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre Consider the History of Mythical Flying Creatures

 
By T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre  May 6, 2021

For Too Long We Have Only Known Western Stories of the Himalayas

Sophie Cousins on the Cruel Beauty of Mountaineering and
the Literature It Breeds

 
By Sophie Cousins  May 6, 2021

“Writers Write.” Laura Dave on Writerly Affirmations and Love for Nora Ephron

The Author of The Last Thing He Told Me Takes
the Lit Hub Questionnaire

 
By Literary Hub  May 6, 2021

Who is “Public” Data
Really For?

Jer Thorp on Openness and Access in Our Era of
Technology and Information

 
By Jer Thorp  May 6, 2021
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    Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 6, 2021
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    Maggie Shipstead: In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying

    By The Maris Review  May 6, 2021

    How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

    Ken Ellingwood on the Social and Political Function of Print Media

     
    How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s
    By Ken Ellingwood  May 6, 2021
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    How Hunt for the Wilderpeople Subverts Both the Orphan Trope and the Buddy Comedy

    By Open Form  May 6, 2021
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    Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism

    By Just the Right Book   May 6, 2021

    5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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    In Context: Rachel Cusk

    May 5, 2021  By Lori Feathers

    My First Thriller: Harlan Coben

    May 6, 2021  By Rick Pullen

    Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

    May 6, 2021  By L.R. Dorn

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