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    Theater

    Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

    By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Ayad Akhtar on Why Literature Isn’t Just a ‘Bleeding-Heart Liberal’ Preoccupation

    By The Literary Life  September 18, 2020
    Nature

    On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

    By Robert Michael Pyle  September 18, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Moving Through Books and Books That Move Us

    By Caryl Pagel  September 18, 2020
    Democracy

    Can America’s Governors Save Our System of Democracy?

    By Saladin Ambar  September 18, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Nice White Parents, The Princess Bride LIVE, and Samantha Crain

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Energy

    ‘We’re Looking at a New Cold War’: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

    By Bill Cohan  September 18, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Garnette Cadogan on What We’re Missing Without Public Space

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    Teaching

    On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Love and Romance

    Let’s Rethink How We Talk About Love, Intimacy, and the Absence of Desire

    By Angela Chen  September 18, 2020
    Keen On

    Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

    By Keen On  September 18, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Intimations by Zadie Smith, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Premee Mohamed and
    Her Protagonists Want to Save the World

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    On Craft

    Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

    By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
    Fall Preview

    The Lit Hub 2020 Fall Preview

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter from Seattle: A Season of Peaceful Protest

    By Claudia Castro Luna  September 17, 2020
    Conservatism

    President Lincoln’s Republican Party Was the Original Party of Big Government

    By Peter Balakian  September 17, 2020
    Musicians

    When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

    By Philip Norman  September 17, 2020
    Keen On

    In Defense of Looting? Or Against Nonviolence?

    By Keen On  September 17, 2020
    Addiction

    Erica Barnett on the Books That Helped Her in Recovery

    By Erica Barnett  September 17, 2020
    Science fiction

    How a 1960s Sci-Fi Fable Expanded the Meaning of Cuban Pilgrimages

    By Yoss   September 17, 2020
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Ted Mathys

    By Ted Mathys  September 17, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Gary Hart on the Secret Emergency Powers of the President

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 17, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Morgan Jerkins: Who Gets Displaced for the Sake of Tourism?

    By The Maris Review  September 17, 2020
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