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A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

“What haunts us doesn’t need to harm us, but can instead help guide us through what feels too difficult...”

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Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Faraaz Mahomed Discusses His Debut Novel Mother/Land With Damon Galgut

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In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

Maris Kreizman on the Need For Literary Friction

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Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse

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How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

Shelley Streeby on the Ecologies That Inspired the Science Fiction Author's Body of Work

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The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

M.C. Mah Considers the Work of Making and Waiting

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11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

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On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Florence Hazrat on the Contentious History of a (Perfect) Literary Tool

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On Grief and Growing Up in</br> <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>

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Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

The Author of Dèy Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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