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    Feminism

    Sady Doyle on the Man Who Insisted His Wife Was a Malevolent Fairy

    By Sady Doyle  August 26, 2019
    Poem

    ‘Where the Zinfandel Pass Their Seasons in Mute Rows’
    A Poem by Jane Mead

    By Jane Mead  August 26, 2019
    Grief

    Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

    By Kelsey Ronan  August 26, 2019
    Reading Lists

    The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels

    By Emily Temple  August 26, 2019
    Film

    How Martin Scorsese Straddled Hollywood and Auteur Filmmaking

    By Paul Lopes  August 26, 2019
    The Holocaust

    Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

    By Maria Tumarkin  August 26, 2019
    Craft

    Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

    By But That's Another Story  August 26, 2019
    Sun Valley

    Anthony Doerr on the Beautiful Art of Failure

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  August 25, 2019
    Tourism

    Standing Room Only: On Overtravel and the Joy of the Unsung

    By Thomas Swick  August 23, 2019
    American Classics

    Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

    By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
    Keen On

    Can Digital Activism Solve the Information Crisis?

    By Keen On  August 23, 2019
    Drafts

    Susan Steinberg on the Value of Writing an Ugly Draft

    By Diane Cook  August 23, 2019
    Street Photography

    How Arthur Fellig Became the Legendary Street Photographer Weegee

    By Christopher Bonanos  August 23, 2019
    Lit Hub Recommends

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    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Science

    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Technology

    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
    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
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