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    Poets

    Ben Lerner Talks to Ocean Vuong About Love, Whiteness, and Toxic Masculinity

    By Ocean Vuong  October 15, 2019
    5 Books

    Elizabeth Strout on Writers’ Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and More

    By Literary Hub  October 15, 2019
    Food

    How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?

    By Lenore Newman  October 15, 2019
    Biology

    No One Really Knows Why Humans Can Walk

    By Bill Bryson  October 15, 2019
    Norwegian Literature

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)

    By John Freeman  October 15, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    A Household of Minor Things:
    The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

    By Tara McDowell  October 15, 2019
    Work

    Johan Harstad’s Summer of Porn and Philosophy

    By Johan Harstad  October 15, 2019
    First Draft

    Alix Ohlin on the Question That Inspired Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2019
    Poem

    “How It Felt”
    A Poem by Sharon Olds

    By Sharon Olds  October 15, 2019
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, Read by the Author and Others

    By Behind the Mic   October 14, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
    Ireland

    The Irish Clan That Was “Virtually Deleted from History”

    By Tim Robinson  October 11, 2019
    Politics

    On the Front lines of Indigenous Activism

    By Jasilyn Charger  October 11, 2019
    Dictators

    In the Age of Political Thugs

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
    Activism

    On the Activism of Marlon Brando, Before the Fame

    By William J. Mann  October 11, 2019
    Coming of Age

    On Coming of Age in a Discount Supermarket

    By Michael Jaime-Becerra  October 11, 2019
    Keen On

    Scott Galloway: Tech Companies Should Be Broken Up

    By Keen On  October 11, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Stevie Nicks, Aimee Bender, and The Yellow House

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Meg Cabot on Her Unlikely Path to Hollywood

    By The Literary Life  October 11, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

    By John Freeman  October 10, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Shea Serrano on John Wick, Worldbuilding, and Superfans

    By The Maris Review  October 10, 2019
    Neuroscience

    How Does One Actually Prove a Human is Smarter Than a Housefly?

    By Nicholas P. Money  October 10, 2019
    Love

    Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

    By Brad Gooch   October 10, 2019
    The Writing Life

    A Poet’s Case for Wasting Time

    By Kayo Chingonyi  October 10, 2019
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