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    How to Be Human in a Time
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    On Relearning the History of an Earth on the Verge

     
    By Elizabeth Putfark  September 16, 2019

    On Alma Mahler, Muse and Mistress of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

    Cate Haste Considers the Legacy of "a modern woman who
    lived out of her time."

     
    By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019

    Helen Phillips on Her Dark Exploration of Motherhood

    The Author of The Need on First Draft

     
    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 16, 2019

    Elizabeth McCracken: Remembering Susan Kamil, Friend and Editor

    "Susan was always looking out for the safety and happiness
    of those she loved."

     
    By Elizabeth McCracken  September 16, 2019

    Can Climate Fiction Be... Hopeful?

    Alex DiFrancesco and Ashley Shelby on Writing
    Mythology for a New Era

     
    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2019
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    A Fist or a Heart

    From Kristín Eiríksdóttir's novel translated by Larissa Kyzer

    “How to Survive a Heat Wave”

    A story by Chika Unigwe

    Gun Island

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    Honey, I Killed the Cats

    From Dorota Maslowska's novel, translated by Benjamin Paloff

    Literary History

    The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

    By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
    Genetics

    Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

    By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019

    Marching on London with Extinction Rebellion

    Thomas Bunstead on the Pilgrimage from Peacehaven to East Sussex to London

     
    Marching on London with Extinction Rebellion
    By Thomas Bunstead  September 16, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On the Rare Decency of
    Susan Kamil

    By John Freeman  September 16, 2019
    Art History

    On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

    By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019

    Wayétu Moore on Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Murder in the Cassava Patch

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    The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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    8 Novels Featuring Atypical Amateur Sleuths

    September 16, 2019  By Sarah Lotz

    What Writers Can Learn from Dante—Seriously, From Dante

    September 16, 2019  By Matthew Pearl

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