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Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

UVA's Book Traces Project tracks human interactions with physical books

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2016

Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

How Two Writers Responded to the Pressures of an Authoritarian Government

By Nathan Scott McNamara | December 16, 2016

Getting Lost in William Trevor's Private World

Getting Lost in William Trevor's Private World

D. Wystan Owen on the Haunting Intimacy of Trevor's Short Fiction

By D. Wystan Owen | December 16, 2016

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

"In time, his presence in my mind will burn out as a cigar does"

By Pablo Medina | December 16, 2016

Watch a Video about the Beauty of the Literary Barbershop

Watch a Video about the Beauty of the Literary Barbershop

In Ypsilanti, Michigan, one barbershop gives a discount to kids who read

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2016

I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

From Isabel Greenberg's The One Hundred Nights of Hero

By Isabel Greenberg | December 16, 2016

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Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

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"Munro’s inspiration has meant a real moral, aesthetic, and tonal adventure"

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Basking in Shirley Hazzard's Pure, Cold Light

Basking in Shirley Hazzard's Pure, Cold Light

Mary Duffy Remembers the Shimmering Crispness of Hazzard's Prose

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Bookselling in the 21st Century: The Perils of Shopping Local

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Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness

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Shirley Hazzard and a Lost Literary Intelligentsia

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In Conversation with John Freeman, Upper East Side, circa 2005

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Saving Refugees, One Boat at a Time

Saving Refugees, One Boat at a Time

The True Tale of the Optician of Lampedusa

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LitHub Daily: December 14, 2016

LitHub Daily: December 14, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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