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The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

What It's Like to Teach Writing When Everyone's a Writer

What It's Like to Teach Writing When Everyone's a Writer

Janet Burroway Revisits Her Classic Book for Creative Writing Students

By Janet Burroway | June 3, 2019

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

Lisa Duggan on the Influence of the Original Mean Girl

By Lisa Duggan | May 31, 2019

Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

Dennis Tang on Entering a New Era in His Reading Life

By Dennis Tang | May 31, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in May

By Literary Hub | May 31, 2019

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Rodrigo Fresan and Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Reading Jorge Luis Borges

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The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

By Alyson Hagy | May 30, 2019

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

By Amanda Stern | May 30, 2019

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

By Lynn Steger Strong | May 30, 2019

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

Understanding the Poet as a Journalist, in 2019

By Philip Eil | May 29, 2019

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Dean Kuipers Reads the Poet's Posthumous Collection

By Dean Kuipers | May 28, 2019

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Raksha Vasudevan on Coming Face-to-Face With the Myths that Make America

By Raksha Vasudevan | May 28, 2019

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Hamilton Cain Considers David Epstein's Range

By Hamilton Cain | May 28, 2019

Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

"You have to get the reader to turn over the page."

By Emily Temple | May 28, 2019

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