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    Critical Race Theory

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    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today’s Villains

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    The History of Literature

    David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare’s White Others

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    Sci-Fi

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023
    In Conversation

    Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 5, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Maria Ressa on Fighting for the Safety of Journalists

    By Talk Easy  December 5, 2023
    On Grief

    Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

    By Gabriel Bump  December 4, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Dion Graham and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Biography and Memoir Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 4, 2023
    Write-minded

    Jamila Minnicks on the Higher Truth of Fiction

    By Memoir Nation   December 4, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Beth Kephart on the Observational Lens

    By Beth Kephart  December 1, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Helen Laser and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Fiction Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 1, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Katherine Howe on the Joy of Writing Pirates

    By History of Literature  December 1, 2023
    Existentialism

    What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

    By Kate Christensen  November 30, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Casey Plett On Community and Being Open To Strangers

    By The Maris Review  November 30, 2023
    Fathers and Daughters

    Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

    By Sheila Squillante  November 29, 2023
    Domestic Violence

    A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

    By Jessica Strawser  November 29, 2023
    On Poetry

    Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

    By Peter Mishler  November 28, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Benny Safdie on Capturing Life on Film

    By Talk Easy  November 28, 2023
    Booker Prize Winner

    Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch on the Fundamental Dignity of the Individual

    By Peter Murphy  November 27, 2023
    Writing Women

    Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction

    By Lisa Gornick  November 27, 2023
    Write-minded

    Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Origin Stories

    By Memoir Nation   November 27, 2023
    On Grief

    Elegies of Sorrow and the Crow: How to Process Grief and Loss Through Storytelling

    By Caroline Hardaker  November 22, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

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