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    Politics

    Why I Risked Arrest to Protest the Giller Prize’s Blood Money

    "It’s not enough to sign a letter or boycott once. We must see this through to the end."

     
    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Disappearing Internet and a Culture Schlock on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 26, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 26, 2025
    Writing Spaces

    A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own

    By Katie da Cunha Lewin  September 26, 2025
    Poetry

    “Sniped Sonnet,” a Poem by Zeina Hashem Beck

    By Zeina Hashem Beck  September 26, 2025
    Korean Food

    How to Party Like a Korean in the Middle of a Hurricane

    By Irene Yoo  September 26, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Craft of Writing

    M.L. Rio on Writing Real Songs for Fictional Bands

    By M.L. Rio  September 26, 2025
    Cundill History Prize

    How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

    By Sophia Rosenfeld  September 26, 2025
    Literary Citizenship

    How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)

    By Maris Kreizman  September 25, 2025
    Literary Festivals

    Why Literary Festivals Still Matter

    Javier Garcia del Moral on Lessons in Inquietud and Investing in Art During Times of Tragedy

    By Javier Garcia del Moral  September 26, 2025
    In Conversation

    Jonathan Lethem on Revisiting Old Short Stories While Writing New Ones

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 25, 2025
    The Ocean

    Meet the Ocean’s Remarkable See-Through Animals

    By Steven Haddock and Sönke Johnsen  September 25, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 25, 2025
    Cundill History Prize

    How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

    From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”

    By Lyndal Roper  September 25, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Caleb Gayle on Black Settlers in the American West

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 25, 2025
    Technology

    The New McCarthyism: On Canary Mission’s Toxic Blacklisting of Pro-Palestinian Sentiment

    By Omar Zahzah  September 24, 2025
    Politics

    Against True Crime Sensationalism

    By John J. Lennon  September 24, 2025
    Apocalypse

    On the Limits of Language at the End of the World

    Ed Simon Considers How We Talk About the Climate Apocalypse

    By Ed Simon  September 24, 2025
    On Reading

    Why Drag Queen Story Hour Matters

    By Nina West  September 24, 2025
    Representation

    Writing Yourself Into Existence: On Loving Worlds Where We Don’t Belong

    By Abdi Nazemian  September 24, 2025
    Cundill History Prize

    From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

    By Benjamin Nathans  September 24, 2025
    Thresholds

    Mariana Enriquez on Burning a Manuscript

    In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

    By Thresholds   September 24, 2025
    Awakeners

    Gabrielle Bates and Keetje Kuipers Are Seeking Wildness

    By Awakeners   September 24, 2025
    Profiles

    Patricia Lockwood on Drawing From Tolstoy and Avoiding “the Butthole of the Universe”

    By Eric Olson  September 23, 2025
    Sports History

    When Bruce Lee Trained With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Jeff Chang  September 25, 2025
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