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Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>?

Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

The Longest Poem-in-Progress of All Time...

By Michael Schmidt | November 21, 2019

Piecing Together the Lives<br> of Enslaved Americans

Piecing Together the Lives
of Enslaved Americans

Rachel May Traces the Warp and Weft of History Through Fabric

By Rachel May | November 21, 2019

An Ode to Women Who Walk, <br>From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

An Ode to Women Who Walk,
From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

From Lizzy Stewart's Graphic Meditation on Contemporary Life

By Lizzy Stewart | November 21, 2019

How Do We Ultimately Escape Our Family Secrets?

How Do We Ultimately Escape Our Family Secrets?

Adrienne Brodeur, on Her New Memoir Wild Game, with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | November 21, 2019

When a City Goes Bankrupt: A Brief History of Detroit c. 2010

When a City Goes Bankrupt: A Brief History of Detroit c. 2010

“The country cannot prosper if its cities are decaying.”

By Jodie Adams Kirshner | November 21, 2019

<em>LIC Reading Series Podcast</em>: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Keith Gessen Panel Discussion

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Keith Gessen Panel Discussion

Onstage Conversations at the LIC Reading Series

By LIC Reading Series | November 21, 2019

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On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

By Nina MacLaughlin | November 20, 2019

American Diplomacy After Benghazi

By Paul Richter | November 20, 2019

How the Vietnam War Changed
Political Poetry

By Daniel H. Weiss | November 20, 2019

The Debutante Ball in the Global <br>Age of Instagram

The Debutante Ball in the Global
Age of Instagram

On High Society Rites of Passage and Dreams of Fame

By Kristen Richardson | November 20, 2019

Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

Serhii Plohky on the WWII Allied Plans for the Air

By Serhii Plokhy | November 20, 2019

Hollywood's Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and...<em>The Wiz</em>

Hollywood's Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and...The Wiz

Musicals Never Died, They Only Evolved

By Jeanine Basinger | November 20, 2019

Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White

Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White

Read a Selection From His Novel-in-Progress A Previous Life

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2019

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

“We wanted to be seen, finally, to exist in the lives we’d mapped out for ourselves.”

By Jaquira Díaz | November 20, 2019

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

Jennifer S. Cheng on Writing about the Moon Goddess Chang'E

By Jennifer S. Cheng | November 20, 2019

In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe<br> in an Oak Tree

In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe
in an Oak Tree

Jung Young Moon on the Small Mythologies of Place

By Jung Young Moon | November 20, 2019

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