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    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    Cultural History

    How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence

    By Bruce Robbins  February 10, 2025
    The Body

    Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

    By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich  February 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2025
    Write-minded

    Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

    By Memoir Nation   February 10, 2025
    Literary Journals

    The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 7, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

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

    By Book Marks  February 7, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

    By Sophia Terazawa  February 7, 2025
    Icons

    “We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

    By Josephine Baker  February 7, 2025
    Remembrances

    “This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

    By Paul Morton  February 7, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

    By Webb Keane  February 7, 2025
    Gaza

    For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

    By Andreas Malm  February 6, 2025
    Community

    Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

    By Tyson Yunkaporta  February 6, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 6, 2025
    On Poetry

    Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

    By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  February 6, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 6, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 6, 2025
    The Arctic

    How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

    By Neil Shubin  February 6, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 6, 2025
    Harlem Renaissance

    Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

    By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
    Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

    By Shigehiro Oishi  February 5, 2025
    Love

    Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

    By Jessica Soffer  February 5, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
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