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On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

Stephen Marche Considers the Long Tail of Tom Scocca’s “On Smarm”

By Stephen Marche | February 14, 2023

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

“A campus is a cauldron, a swirling pot of people learning about themselves.”

By Daisy Alpert Florin | February 14, 2023

Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 14, 2023

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

Paz Pardo on Living in a World of Continuing Calamities

By Paz Pardo | February 14, 2023

Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of A Country You Can Leave

By Jane Ciabattari | February 14, 2023

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

In Conversation with Martin Riker, Patrick Bringley, Sonora Jha, Priya Guns, and Melinda Moustakis

By Teddy Wayne | February 14, 2023

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All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

“Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

By I'm a Writer But | February 14, 2023

H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

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Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read... and <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em>

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read... and Slaughterhouse-Five

Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and More

By Isabel Waidner | February 13, 2023

10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named <em>Get Out</em>

10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named Get Out

Films That Dared to “Go There”... with Varying Degrees of Success

By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris | February 13, 2023

Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

“Light from the past illuminates our present.”

By Nona Fernández | February 13, 2023

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

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