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    Immigration

    Suketu Mehta on Fighting
    Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Karl Marlantes on How Mythology Infuses His Writing

    By The Literary Life  August 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

    By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
    Art Criticism

    Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

    By Dorothy Parker  August 22, 2019
    Poetry

    J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry

    By J. M. G. Le Clézio  August 22, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jess Row and Timothy Yu on Whiteness and Writing About Race

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

    By Lara Vapnyar  August 22, 2019
    Linguistics

    The Feints and Jabs of Polari,
    Britain’s Gay Slang

    By Paul Baker  August 22, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Oyinkan Braithwaite on Making Murder Fun

    By The Maris Review  August 22, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

    By Just the Right Book   August 22, 2019
    Capitalism

    ‘Late Capitalism,’ a Prose Poem by Alissa Quart

    By Alissa Quart  August 22, 2019
    #TBT

    Is a Good Book a Good Book No Matter How Old You Are?

    By Literary Disco  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
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    By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
    Philosophy

    For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

    By Jonathan Rée  August 21, 2019
    Religion

    On Victor Hugo’s Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

    By Abby Walthausen  August 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

    By Boze Herrington  August 21, 2019
    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

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    News and Culture

    At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

    By Marcia Douglas  August 21, 2019
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