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The Very Real Consolations of Poetry

The Very Real Consolations of Poetry

A Poem is Not a Substitute for Action, But It Can Lift Us Up

By Literary Hub | November 11, 2016

Dubravka Ugrešić: “Who am I, Where am I, and Whose am I?”

Dubravka Ugrešić: “Who am I, Where am I, and Whose am I?”

The winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2016

The Beginning or the End? Writers on the Age of Trump

The Beginning or the End? Writers on the Age of Trump

On the Eve of the Election, Which America Are We?

By Literary Hub | November 7, 2016

Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President?

Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President?

Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau on Raising Children of Color in Trump's America

By Literary Hub | November 7, 2016

Satire, Despair, and Art in the Age of Trump

Satire, Despair, and Art in the Age of Trump

Kate Tuttle and Kera Bolonik Consider the Future of America

By Literary Hub | November 7, 2016

Amber Tamblyn Reads from Alice Hoffman's <em>Faithful</em>

Amber Tamblyn Reads from Alice Hoffman's Faithful

"The girls gather round in awe and solidarity, even the ones who hate each other."

By Literary Hub | November 4, 2016

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Isaac Mizrahi on a Love of Old Things, and Surviving the Nightmare of the Present

By Literary Hub | November 4, 2016

PoetryFest Presents Work by Jericho Brown, Fanny Howe, and Jana Prikryl

By Literary Hub | November 4, 2016

Kafka on Clothes, Laughter, and Miserable Words

By Literary Hub | November 3, 2016

For Better or Worse, How Mississippi Remembers Emmett Till

For Better or Worse, How Mississippi Remembers Emmett Till

W. Ralph Eubanks and Dave Tell on the Legacy of a Murder

By Literary Hub | November 2, 2016

Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry

Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry

A Great American Thinker in Conversation with Bill Corbett

By Literary Hub | November 1, 2016

16 Books You Should Read This November

16 Books You Should Read This November

What to Read As the Nights Grow Dark

By Literary Hub | October 31, 2016

Writing Infertility: Belle Boggs and Monica Youn in Conversation

Writing Infertility: Belle Boggs and Monica Youn in Conversation

On the Continuing Stigma of Reproductive Intervention

By Literary Hub | October 28, 2016

There Are 1,462 Possible Plots for Your Book

There Are 1,462 Possible Plots for Your Book

From William Wallace Cook’s Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots

By Literary Hub | October 28, 2016

Thomas Bernhard:

Thomas Bernhard: "I Am a Story Destroyer"

From Ferry Radax's 1970 Film Three Days, Now in Book Form

By Literary Hub | October 28, 2016

Junot Diaz on the Joys of the Young and the Stories of the Dead

Junot Diaz on the Joys of the Young and the Stories of the Dead

In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | October 27, 2016

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