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On Memory’s Ghosts and the Search for the Perfect Writing Space

On Memory’s Ghosts and the Search for the Perfect Writing Space

Karen Salyer McElmurray: “Some days in my writing room, I really can hear my own breath.”

By Karen Salyer McElmurray | September 12, 2024

Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

The Author of “Mademoiselle Eiffel” Reflects on the Self-Gift From Her Book Advance that Keeps Her Going

By Aimie K. Runyan | September 11, 2024

Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination

Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination

From Kathleen DuVal's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Native Nations”

By Kathleen DuVal | September 11, 2024

Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

Lester Fabian Brathwaite Considers the Literary and Cultural Socialization of Young Black Queer Men

By Lester Fabian Brathwaite | September 11, 2024

Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Underworld Lit”

By Peter Mishler | September 11, 2024

When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries

When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Impact of Bomb Threats and the Rhetoric of School Shooters

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | September 11, 2024

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“Copper Anniversary,” a Poem by Zan de Parry

By Zan de Parry | September 11, 2024

Documenting Shifting Landscapes with Kalyanee Mam

By Emergence Magazine | September 11, 2024

How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

By Rebecca Nagle | September 10, 2024

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

The Author of “Magically Black and Other Essays” Reflects on Serena Williams, Gang Signs, and “Scaring the White Folks”

By Jerald Walker | September 10, 2024

How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

From Joya Chatterji's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Shadows at Noon”

By Joya Chatterji | September 10, 2024

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s <em>Waiting</em> and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Rachel Khong: “We can’t help but wonder about the arbitrary demands and strictures placed on these individuals: What was it all for?”

By Rachel Khong | September 10, 2024

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

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

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Richard Mirabella on Blood Ties

Richard Mirabella on Blood Ties

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By I'm a Writer But | September 10, 2024

Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

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By Cat Marnell | September 9, 2024

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Roland Allen Explores the Millennia-Long History of Jotting Things Down

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