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What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

Rachel Donohue on the Character That Wouldn't Leave Her Alone

By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

Emily Austin Navigates the Grief That Lurks Within the Best of Memories

By Emily Austin | July 8, 2021

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WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate Change

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Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the "beautiful time capsule" of film noir.

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How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

Paul Legault on Art That Shows You You’re Not Dead

By Paul Legault | July 7, 2021

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On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

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By David Chrisinger | July 7, 2021

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two

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