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    Bad Reviews

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023

    By Book Marks  December 23, 2023
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    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

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    Best of 2023

    The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

    By Blake Butler  December 22, 2023
    Poetry

    “Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah

    By Nasser Rabah  December 22, 2023
    First Draft

    David James Duncan on Choosing Between Art and Activism

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    Witches

    We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

    By E. Tracy Grinnell  December 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    All of Us Strangers Confronts the Dangers of Spinning Trauma Into Art

    By Andrew Quintana  December 21, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 21, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 21, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn’s History With Lived Experience

    By The Maris Review  December 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    How Long Will Schindler’s List Endure as a Public Memorial to The Holocaust?

    By Paul Morton  December 20, 2023
    Anthropocene

    Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

    By Sukhada Tatke  December 20, 2023
    Remembrances

    The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

    By Matthew Hays  December 20, 2023
    Supreme Court

    Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court’s Checkered Past and Future

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

    By History of Literature  December 20, 2023
    Book Bans

    Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

    By Tai Caputo  December 19, 2023
    Talk Easy

    David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

    By Talk Easy  December 19, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 19, 2023
    Witches

    A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

    By Chelsea Iversen  December 19, 2023
    In Conversation

    Louise Kennedy on Discovering Fiction’s Complex Emotional Truths

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 19, 2023
    What to Watch

    John F. Kennedy’s Last Movie: From Russia with Love

    By Stanley Schtinter  December 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    “I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

    By Lucie Elven  December 18, 2023
    Illness

    Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

    By Sarah Wheeler  December 18, 2023
    African Literature

    Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

    By Sakiru Adebayo  December 18, 2023
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