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    Amina Cain on the Value of Art That Disorients You

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    By Christian Kiefer  February 5, 2020
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    Do We Still Know Our Own Faces in This Tech-Dominated Society?

    By Jessica Helfand  February 5, 2020
    The Cold War

    Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

    By Diana Preston  February 5, 2020
    Dystopias

    Life in a Freewheeling, Buoyant Dystopia (With Baseball at Its Center)

    By Mimi Lok  February 5, 2020
    The Holocaust

    Discovering My Jewish Family Member’s Star Badge

    By Ariana Neumann  February 5, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

    By Michael G. Long  February 5, 2020
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    By Reading Women  February 5, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    Behind the Mic: On The Fierce 44 by The Staff of the Undefeated, Read by JD Jackson

    By Behind the Mic   February 5, 2020
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    Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
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    By Literary Hub  February 4, 2020
    The Cold War

    Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

    By Diana Preston  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
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    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    Literary History

    Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
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    By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

    By Dan Bevacqua  February 4, 2020
    Poem

    “Something of the Sky”

    By Christian Wiman  February 4, 2020
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    Diksha Basu Performs a Passage From Her Novel The Windfall

    By Storybound   February 4, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Abeer Hoque, Sarah Perry, and Jason Tougaw

    By LIC Reading Series  February 4, 2020
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    Behind the Mic: On Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Produced by L.A. Theatre Works

    By Behind the Mic   February 4, 2020
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    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    MFA Life

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    By Caroline Zancan  February 3, 2020
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    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
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    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
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