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    Jewish History

    Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

    By Mark Oppenheimer  October 8, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Story Behind The Snake Pit, Mary Jane Ward’s Dark Comic Masterpiece

    By Larry Lockridge  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    Open Source

    Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

    By Open Source  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Helen Russell on Having a Healthy Relationship with Sadness

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

    By Manan Ahmed Asif  October 8, 2021
    New Books Network

    Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 8, 2021
    The Common

    Ricardo Wilson on the Importance of Interrogating Research

    By The Common  October 8, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Archer by Shruti Swamy, Read by Sneha Mathan

    By Behind the Mic   October 8, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History

    By Emily Temple  October 7, 2021
    Social Science

    Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

    By Stephanie Grant  October 7, 2021
    On Racism

    Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

    By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joshua Ferris Urges Writers Not to Cower on the Page

    By Literary Hub  October 7, 2021
    Open Form

    Téa Obreht on Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca’s Lesbian Feminist Hero

    By Open Form  October 7, 2021
    Hip Hop

    Why Kendrick Lamar is the Most Political Rapper in Modern-Day Pop Culture

    By Miles Marshall Lewis  October 7, 2021
    Writing Advice

    How to Write a Good Fight Scene

    By Jeff Bens  October 7, 2021
    Foraging

    The Primordial Pull of the Truffle, That “Holy of Holies”

    By Rowan Jacobsen  October 7, 2021
    Marriage

    How to Be Married, in 16 Simple and Completely F*cking Unrealistic Steps

    By Kimberly Harrington  October 7, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition

    By Just the Right Book   October 7, 2021
    Comics

    Enki Bilal on the Frightening Speed of the Digital Revolution and Finding Meaning in Humanism

    By Aysegul Sert  October 7, 2021
    Nature Writing

    How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

    By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Kaitlyn Greenidge on the Publishing Industry’s Shallow Relationship with Black Literature

    By Book Dreams  October 7, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    Peddlers, Bakers, Wool-Sorters: The Economic History of Women in Angoulême

    By Emma Rothschild  October 7, 2021
    Best Reviews of the Week

    What the Critics Think: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 7, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 7, 2021
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