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Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

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How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

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Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

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On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

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On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

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“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman

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The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of June and July 2026

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What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power

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How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”

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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

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More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

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This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published

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More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

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On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

By Elizabeth H. Winthrop