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    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
    Mothers

    The Books That Bear the Weight
    of the Living

    By Angelique Stevens  July 30, 2019
    Neuroscience

    A Brief and Awful History
    of the Lobotomy

    By Andrew Scull  July 30, 2019
    Religion

    What Happens When Satanists Try to Build a Public Monument?

    By Jay Wexler  July 30, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    A.E. Stallings: ‘I’m Optimistic About Poetry, but That’s Maybe the Only Thing’

    By Peter Mishler  July 30, 2019
    WWII

    On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

    By Jean Edward Smith  July 30, 2019
    Writing Strategies

    On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

    By Liz Astrof  July 30, 2019
    Poem

    ‘Rotation,’
    A Poem by Dunya Mikhail

    By Dunya Mikhail  July 30, 2019
    Memoir

    Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

    By But That's Another Story  July 30, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
    Writing Women

    Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

    By Stephanie Jimenez  July 29, 2019
    About the Body

    On the Evolution of Fatness
    in Society

    By Christopher E. Forth  July 29, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Friendship

    From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2019
    Reappraisals

    Everyone Misunderstands the Point of Fight Club

    By Rebecca Renner  July 26, 2019
    Reading

    Why Don’t I Read All My Books?

    By Karen Olsson  July 26, 2019
    Photography

    If You Can’t Go to a Swimming Pool Right Now, Here Are Some Photographs

    By Literary Hub  July 26, 2019
    Lit Hub Radio

     Is Humor the Best Antidote to Tyranny?

    By Keen On  July 26, 2019
    Gatekeeping

    Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

    By Marcos Gonsalez  July 26, 2019
    Typewriters

    Pablo Cartaya on Heading to the Heart of Controversy, and More

    By The Literary Life  July 26, 2019
    Russian and Eurasian Studies

    Alexandra Popoff on Vasily Grossman and the Fate of the Writer in the Soviet Union

    By New Books Network  July 26, 2019
    Reading

    On Opening Ghana’s First Subscription-Model Library

    By Sylvia Arthur  July 25, 2019
    Writer's block

    Got Writer’s Block?
    Read This Poem

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 25, 2019
    Immigration stories

    How Trump’s Failed Wall Wreaks Havoc at the US-Mexico Border

    By John Carlos Frey  July 25, 2019
    Defying Genre

    On Breaking Down the Barrier Between YA and Adult Fiction

    By Alexi Zentner  July 25, 2019
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