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

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

Eric Pallant Investigates Our Desire for the Authentically Homemade

By Eric Pallant | September 16, 2021

Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

Lauren Elkin on the Writer's Approach to Reality

By Lauren Elkin | September 16, 2021

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

Louise Nealon Considers the Ways in Which We Translate Experience

By Louise Nealon | September 16, 2021

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

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

Edward Glaeser and David Cutler on the History of Medieval Plagues and Its Connections to COVID-19

By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler | September 16, 2021

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | September 16, 2021

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 16, 2021

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

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WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

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

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Remembering the Many Phases of Mark Baumer

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

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

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 16, 2021

Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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“The Mountaintop”

“The Mountaintop”

A Poem by Sandra Lim

By Sandra Lim | September 16, 2021

<em>Together We Will Go</em> by J. Michael Straczynski, Read by a Full Cast

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

A Haunting Audiobook

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

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

The Author of Talk to Me Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2021

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

Maria Tatar Considers the Deep Cultural Work of Chatter

By Maria Tatar | September 15, 2021

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