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Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up?)

Olivia Rutigliano on the Rise of Amazon.com, Corporate Homogenization, and the
90s Rom Com in the Middle of It All

May 20, 2022

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Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language

May 19, 2022

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The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

“As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.”

May 18, 2022

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What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

Annie Finch, Editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, in Conversation with Some Contributors

May 5, 2022

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A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster

May 3, 2022

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

From True Crime to Giant Snakes, Something for Everyone

May 2, 2022

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What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality

April 27, 2022

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“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

April 26, 2022

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Corrupt Russian Oligarchs Trying to Destroy You? Better Call John Moscow

Bill Browder on What Happens When You Name and Shame the Bad Guys

April 26, 2022

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Hope for Planet Earth: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change

Because the Case for Hope—and the Need for Change—Has Never Been More Urgent

April 22, 2022

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Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope

April 21, 2022

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How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

Kathryn Harkup on the Many Ways To Live and Die on the Elizabethan Stage

April 19, 2022

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Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

“Being a human is extraordinary.”

April 13, 2022

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Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

“Defend yourself to your last breath—and whatever you do / don’t let them near you.”

April 8, 2022

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Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

Barbara Shulgasser-Parker Illuminates the Perverse Side to the Famed Writer

April 7, 2022

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Douglas Stuart on the Defiant Spirit of Glasgow’s Doocots, Private Pigeon Lofts on Public Land

Seeking Unclaimed Space on the Edges of the City's Council Housing

April 6, 2022

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in April

It's a Gritty Month on the Small Screen

April 1, 2022

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“In Moderation and Without Worry.” On Jane Austen’s Use of Food As Character

Robert Tuesday Anderson Recommends a Little “Chawton Cottage Plum Pudding” While You Read

March 31, 2022

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For Megan Mayhew Bergman, When It Comes to Showing Love, It’s All About Southern Cooking

The Author of How Strange a Season Shares Her Great-Grandmother’s Cake Recipe

March 31, 2022

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“War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.” New Work by Ukrainian Poet Halyna Kruk

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

March 17, 2022

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Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Sofi Oksanen Recommends Books With an Eastern European Perspective

March 9, 2022

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How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

Kate Tsurkan Reports from Chernivtsi

March 8, 2022

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“You’ve got to live somewhere you aren’t afraid to die.” Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry From Kharkiv

Read Four Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, Newly Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

March 2, 2022

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“When? Where? How?” Margaret Atwood Considers the Burning Questions of the Writing Life

“Failed again to find recipe box. Used this as an excuse for not working on overdue bird piece.”

March 1, 2022

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Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

“How can one speak about, write about, war?”

February 28, 2022

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Ulysses Turns 100!

Celebrating a Modernist Classic

February 2, 2022

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The Order of Things: Jennifer Croft on Translating Olga Tokarczuk

What It Took to Render The Books of Jacob Into English

February 1, 2022

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20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

"The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so."

January 19, 2022

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The Latest

Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

Dahr Jamail Talks to Diaz About Building a Lexicon

By Dahr Jamail May 20, 2022

Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

Justin Tinsley on the Creation of an Iconic Album

By Justin Tinsley May 20, 2022

On the Early Days of Life in the Sky as a Stewardess

How Ann Hood Took to the Air to Become a Writer

By Ann Hood May 20, 2022

The Literary Life

Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life May 20, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza May 20, 2022

The Craft of Writing

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

By Jonathan Lee May 20, 2022

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

In Conversation

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

By Literary Hub May 20, 2022

Is National Service the Only Way to Stitch America Back Together?

By Andrew Keen May 20, 2022

Unearthing the Pre-NBA History of African American Basketball

Claude Johnson on the Stories We Almost Lost

Unearthing the Pre-NBA History of African American Basketball

By Claude Johnson May 20, 2022

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks May 20, 2022

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By Marc Peter Keane May 20, 2022

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May 20, 2022 By Book Marks

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May 19, 2022 By Book Marks

Seven Books Where Fun and Games Threaten to Turn Fatal

May 20, 2022 By Heather Chavez

How Do You Decolonize the Golden Age Mystery? Read More Historical Fiction!

May 20, 2022 By Christopher Huang

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