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    Right Wing Politics

    The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

    By Jessica Pishko  September 19, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 19, 2024
    Poems

    “Raft,” a Poem by Ted Kooser

    By Ted Kooser  September 19, 2024
    On Poetry

    Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

    By Diana Khoi Nguyen  September 19, 2024
    Literary Theory

    Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

    By Ron Rosenbaum  September 19, 2024
    Poetry

    “The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

    By Emilie Menzel  September 19, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

    By History of Literature  September 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 19, 2024
    New York City

    How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

    By Prithi Kanakamedala  September 18, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

    By Lisa Yaszek  September 18, 2024
    Music history

    How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

    By David Browne  September 18, 2024
    The Natural World

    Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

    By Christopher Brown  September 18, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  September 18, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 17, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2024
    Political History

    Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

    By Timothy Snyder  September 17, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

    By David Van Reybrouck  September 17, 2024
    Motherhood

    Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

    By Abi Maxwell  September 17, 2024
    Race in Publishing

    Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse

    By Thomas Gebremedhin  September 17, 2024
    Small Presses

    Community and Connection: On the Unexpected Benefits of Publishing Through a Small Press

    By Rilla Askew  September 17, 2024
    Education

    How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

    By Jason Stanley  September 16, 2024
    World War II

    Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

    By Richard Flanagan  September 16, 2024
    Relationships

    Consent and Power: On Age Gaps in the Context of Queer Relationships

    By Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers  September 16, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

    By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
    Write-minded

    Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner on Rejection

    By Write-minded   September 16, 2024
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