There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Wedding: On Finding Inspiration in Someone Else’s Nuptials

There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Wedding: On Finding Inspiration in Someone Else’s Nuptials

“The most wonderful thing about attending someone else’s wedding is that it’s not my own.”

By Bobby Finger | June 16, 2026

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz Recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan, and More

By Madeleine Schwartz | June 15, 2026

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Darcey Steinke on Chronic Pain, Loneliness, and the Truth of Woolf’s Work

By Darcey Steinke | June 15, 2026

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

Dominic Erdozain on the Contradictions at the Heart of Thomas Jefferson’s United States

By Dominic Erdozain | June 15, 2026

Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners)

Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners)

Featuring Work by Mary Gaitskill, Colette, Marlen Haushofer and More

By Stacey Yu | June 15, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

(Shortly Before Being Exiled from the City for Life)

By Literary Hub | June 15, 2026

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A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

By Phill Branch | June 15, 2026

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

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Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level?

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Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

Lu Chekowsky on Writing the Truth After a Career in Fiction

By Lu Chekowsky | June 15, 2026

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

David S. Reynolds on the Political and Religious Motivations For the Pilgrims’ Journey to America

By David S. Reynolds | June 12, 2026

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

Jared Marcel Pollen Considers the Roll of the Honeybee in Classical Literature

By Jared Marcel Pollen | June 12, 2026

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

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

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Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

Poets and Translators Pair Eight Recent Korean Poetry Collections in Translation with Korean Music

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Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Jacqueline St. Joan on Language and Life on the Bench

By Jacqueline St. Joan | June 12, 2026

Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting

Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting

The What Ifs of Writing, or Carving Stone

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