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The Encyclopedic Genius of<br> Melville's Masterpiece

The Encyclopedic Genius of
Melville's Masterpiece

On Moby Dick as a Way of Seeing the World

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari | August 1, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

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Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
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Mike Schneider Remembers His Friend's Idiomatic Writing

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8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

Craig Davidson on Victor LaValle, Octavia Butler, Sara Gran, Muriel Spark, and More

By Craig Davidson | July 29, 2019

On the Evolution of Fatness<br> in Society

On the Evolution of Fatness
in Society

Christopher Forth on Religious and Utopian Figurations of the Human Body and Disgust

By Christopher E. Forth | July 29, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

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Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

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On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

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By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

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Randon Billings Noble: What of the Raven, What of the Dove?

By Randon Billings Noble | July 24, 2019

On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

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Howard Norman Reflects on the Collective Meaning of 416 Letters

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Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed<br> With <em>The Group</em>

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My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

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Was <em>The Odyssey</em> the First Greek Novel?

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George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

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