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Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives
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By Literary Hub
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Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story
“Even though I did my best to tune out Croatia, this proved to be an impossible task.”
By Lidija Hilje
July 8, 2025
No Translation, No Problem:
The Joys of Reading a Book Containing Multiple Languages
Rachel Ashcroft on the Benefits of Letting the Words Wash Over You
By Rachel Ashcroft
July 7, 2025
How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age
Will Potter Considers the Psychological and Social Impact of the (Over) Saturation of Cruelty in the Contemporary Era
By Will Potter
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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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