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When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

Gabriel Urza on Making the Move From Criminal Justice to Creative Writing

By Gabriel Urza | October 24, 2025

How Being a Writer Broke (Then Healed) My Queer Little Heart

How Being a Writer Broke (Then Healed) My Queer Little Heart

Grant Chemidlin on Finding Poetry In the Process of Coming Out

By Grant Chemidlin | October 24, 2025

Julian Brave NoiseCat on How Directing a Documentary Shaped His Memoir

Julian Brave NoiseCat on How Directing a Documentary Shaped His Memoir

“Nonfiction is, at its core, about how one chooses to live and observe life.”

By Julian Brave NoiseCat | October 24, 2025

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work

“I see film and books as apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but the taste is remarkably different.”

By Stephen King | October 23, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel contains many such moments of almost febrile power, rendered in prose both gorgeous and a little unnerving.”

By Book Marks | October 23, 2025

Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb

Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb

Serhii Plokhy Digs Into the Rush to Research and Develop Nuclear Warfare in Germany, the USSR, and Japan

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“You’ll See, a Lot Will Happen When I Die.” Remembering Gary Indiana

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2025

Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War

By Lyndal Roper | October 23, 2025

Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us)

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How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean

By Imaobong Umoren | October 23, 2025

“Blue Morpho,” a Poem by Paula Bohince

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From the Author of A Violence

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Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance

Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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Return to <em>Jesus Land</em>: Exposing the Institutionalized Cruelty of the “Troubled Teen Industry”

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Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

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By Adrienne Mayor | October 22, 2025

On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”

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Anthony Gottlieb Considers Wittgenstein’s Famous Family and His Revolutionary Approach to Philosophical Questions

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Forever Faithful To a Single Story: An Ode to Monogamous Writing

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Amy Gallo Ryan: “It was never about setting out to write a book—the point all along was to write this book.”

By Amy Gallo Ryan | October 22, 2025

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