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    Just the Right Book

    How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities?

    By Just the Right Book   December 19, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Tim O’Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

    By Randy O'Brien  December 19, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

    Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman on What Drew Them to Writing

    By LIC Reading Series  December 19, 2019
    On Racism

    The Governor’s Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

    By Peggy Wallace Kennedy  December 19, 2019
    The Hub

    “Why can’t I buy a Joan Didion tote?” and more questions from the expanded Lit Hub universe answered.

    By Jessie Gaynor  December 18, 2019
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Visiting Jeff VanderMeer’s Weird, Wondrous Worlds

    By Erin Berger  December 18, 2019
    The Writing Life

    When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

    By Laleh Khadivi  December 18, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

    By James Tate Hill  December 18, 2019
    Criticism

    The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever’s Darkest Work

    By Rick Moody  December 18, 2019
    Character Development

    How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

    By Jim Davies  December 18, 2019
    Class

    Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class

    By Enza Gandolfo  December 18, 2019
    War

    Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

    By Mike Giglio  December 18, 2019
    Poets

    Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

    By Peter Mishler  December 18, 2019
    The House of SpeakEasy

    The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: This Is Not the End

    By The SpeakEasy Podcast   December 18, 2019
    Otherppl

    Mark Guerin on Solving the Problems of Spoiled Characters

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 18, 2019
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Christmases

    By So Many Damn Books  December 18, 2019
    Shakespeare

    High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
    The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 17, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

    By Ben Orlin  December 17, 2019
    Anthropology

    Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

    By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water

    By Laura Trethewey  December 17, 2019
    #MeToo

    A Season of Books Takes Stock
    of #MeToo

    By Kaylen Ralph  December 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

    By Tiziana de Rogatis  December 17, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 17, 2019
    Ancient History

    On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  December 17, 2019
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