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Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience

Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience

Julie Sedivy Asks Us to Reconsider Our Ideas About Aging and Memory

By Julie Sedivy | October 16, 2024

The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

Kate Hamilton Recommends Deborah Levy, Han Kang, Soraya Chemaly, and More

By Kate Hamilton | October 16, 2024

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

John Larison Considers the Importance and Responsibility of Writing “the Other”

By John Larison | October 16, 2024

10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor

10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor

Kim Kelly, Philip Dray, David Graeber, and More

By Literary Hub | October 15, 2024

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

“Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook.”

By Anthony Bourdain | October 15, 2024

A Fleeting Utopia: The Rise and Fall of the “Women’s Hotel” in American Cities

A Fleeting Utopia: The Rise and Fall of the “Women’s Hotel” in American Cities

Daniel M. Lavery Looks Back on the Lost Phenomenon of a Unique Communal Living Arrangement

By Daniel M. Lavery | October 15, 2024

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“relativity,” a poem by Danez Smith

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“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

By Joyce Carol Oates | October 15, 2024

Maira Kalman on Losing a Sister to Forced Separation

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Elizabeth Strout on Complicated People

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IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: Jane Shapiro with Sara Levine

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Writing to Champion People and Causes

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Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

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Jonny Diamond in Conversation with Kim Kelly

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A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on the Page and on the Screen

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By Literary Hub | October 11, 2024

Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

Russell Cobb Explores the Strange Case of an Indigenous Orphan in Early 1900s Tulsa

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Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

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Cherry Lou Sy on Searching for Identity Beyond Categories and Schisms

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