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Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Myriam Gurba in Conversation with the Author of Freedom: Essays
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In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once”

Samantha Silva: “Women are asking not who we ought to be, but who we want to be.”
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Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You

Follow the Fear. See Where It Leads.
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Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?

Rosa Montero on the Impact of Substance Abuse on Generations of Writers

Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists

By Jane Ciabattari

An “Intellectual Monster...” Why Muriel Spark Never Married

By James Bailey

What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

Lauren Acampora Recommends 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections

By Lauren Acampora

“Effaced...” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine

By Jawdat Fakhreddine and Huda Fakhreddine

Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson

By Carla Baricz and James Kessenides

A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield

By Sloane Crosley

A Poet on the Factory Floor: On Daily Life in China’s Industrial Centers

By Xiao Hai

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“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

By Mali D. Collins

Out From the Shadows: On Rediscovering Mary Shelley’s Half-Sister, Fanny Imlay

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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond

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Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea?

By Ed Simon

Namwali Serpell and Kortney Morrow on Toni Morrison’s Paradise

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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

By Tom Zoellner

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

By Literary Hub

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

By Matthew Cole

Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday

By Ed Simon

This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published

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Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

By Sara Youngblood Gregory