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    Poetry

    “Soil,” a Poem by Paisley Rekdal

    By Paisley Rekdal  May 19, 2023
    Family Stories

    Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

    By Cassandra Jackson  May 19, 2023
    Friendship

    It’s Very, Very Complicated: A Reading List of Friendships That Are All Over the Place

    By Ore Agbaje-Williams  May 19, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  May 19, 2023
    Behind the novel

    At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

    By Daisy Alpert Florin  May 19, 2023
    Screenwriters

    How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

    By Crystal Smith Paul  May 19, 2023
    The Maris Review

    The Person Who Wrote It Is Eating Ramen: Samantha Irby on Writing for TV

    By The Maris Review  May 18, 2023
    Space Travel

    Looking Back at Earth From the Vantage of the Mars Space-Race

    By Matthew Shindell  May 18, 2023
    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    Exploration

    “A Solid, Blue-Black World.” What William Beebe Found at the Bottom of the Ocean

    By Brad Fox  May 18, 2023
    Literary Legends

    The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Got Pranked So Hard He Claimed Fairies Exist

    By Katie Spalding  May 18, 2023
    Poetry

    Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

    By Literary Hub  May 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Ty Burr on Why Hitchcock’s Vertigo Still Matters

    By Keen On  May 18, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 18, 2023
    Lawyers

    Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

    By Deepa Varadarajan  May 18, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Revisiting Some Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed

    By Just the Right Book   May 18, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 18, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

    By Literary Hub  May 17, 2023
    Utopias

    Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  May 17, 2023
    Aliens?

    We Are Not Alone: Phillip Maciak on His Summer Obsessing Over UFO Videos

    By Phillip Maciak  May 17, 2023
    Ukraine

    Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

    By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
    On Poetry

    “I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

    By Jane Wong  May 17, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 17, 2023
    Keen On

    David Fleming: Did Thomas Jefferson Steal the Words of the Declaration of Independence from Irish and Scottish Migrants to North Carolina?

    By Keen On  May 17, 2023
    Writing Place

    Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

    By Breanne Mc Ivor  May 17, 2023
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