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    The Renaissance

    Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

    By Meredith K. Ray  December 12, 2023
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    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    Dystopias

    Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 12, 2023
    Music history

    Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

    By Simon Price  December 12, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  December 12, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Yael Goldstein-Love on the Impossibilities Captured in The Possibilities

    By I'm a Writer But   December 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

    By Talk Easy  December 12, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Vikas Adam and AudioFile’s Best Young Adult Audiobooks of 2023

    By Behind the Mic   December 12, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Photography

    Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

    By Binh Danh  December 11, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

    By Helen Molesworth  December 11, 2023
    Climate Change

    Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

    By Natalie Hart  December 11, 2023
    Poets in Conversation

    Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

    By Literary Hub  December 11, 2023
    Gifts

    On the Difficulty of Giving Books as Gifts

    By Lewis Buzbee  December 11, 2023
    First Draft

    Michael Cunningham on Treating Stories Like Living Things

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

    By Memoir Nation   December 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Hannah Gold on Letting Go of Philip Roth

    By Keen On  December 11, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Guy Lockard and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Children & Family Listening Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

    By Rumaan Alam  December 8, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    By Kliph Nesteroff  December 8, 2023
    Culinary History

    Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

    By Gareth Russell  December 8, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

    By Richard Hugo  December 8, 2023
    Family Stories

    Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

    By Channler Twyman  December 8, 2023
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