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The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

Scott A. Small on the Surprising Benefits of Memory Loss

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Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

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Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

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By Rick White | July 13, 2021

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

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To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

Tahmima Anam on the Serious Business of Being Funny

By Tahmima Anam | July 13, 2021

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

Savala Nolan on the Medical Field’s Cruel Indifference to Black Mothers

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50 Years of Collected Short Fiction

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Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

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Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

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Thora Hjörleifsdóttir on the Art Thriving in a Nearly Lost Language

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

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