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    Poetry

    Three Poems by Dan O’Brien

    By Dan O'Brien  September 17, 2021
    New Books Network

    Trisha Thomas on the Photograph That Catalyzed Questions of Race In Her New Book

    By New Books Network  September 17, 2021
    Good Uses of Time

    50 Great Literary Cameos in Terrible* Early 2000s Movies

    By Emily Temple  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000…
    But Was it Stolen?

    By Jen DeGregorio  September 16, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    You Want Voice? It’s Everywhere in Contemporary Fiction

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2021
    Open Form

    Carmen Maria Machado Revisits the Artistic Genius of Jennifer’s Body

    By Open Form  September 16, 2021
    Baking

    Wonder Bread Sucks: On the First Great Sourdough Boom of the 1960s

    By Eric Pallant  September 16, 2021
    Memoir

    Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

    By Lauren Elkin  September 16, 2021
    Mental Illness

    On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

    By Louise Nealon  September 16, 2021
    Plagues

    Brilliance and Blind Luck: How Did Medieval Europe Invent the Concept of Quarantine?

    By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler  September 16, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

    By Book Dreams  September 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

    By The Maris Review  September 16, 2021
    Feminism

    Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

    By Nice Leng'ete  September 16, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    “Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

    By Maureen Freely  September 16, 2021
    Otherppl

    Remembering the Many Phases of Mark Baumer

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 16, 2021
    Keen On

    David Cutler Discusses the Rapid Evolution of 21st-Century City Life

    By Keen On  September 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

    By Keen On  September 16, 2021
    A Poem

    “The Mountaintop”

    By Sandra Lim  September 16, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   September 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Subversive Power of Gossip

    By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

    By Rebecca Mead  September 15, 2021
    New York City

    Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

    By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
    Thresholds

    Maggie Nelson on Climate Change and Hopelessness

    By Thresholds   September 15, 2021
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