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    Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2019
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

    By Jaime Fuller  September 12, 2019
    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Profiles

    The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott’s Invented World

    By Danielle Evans  September 12, 2019
    Smut I Say!

    When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    WWII

    The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race

    By Richard Askwith  September 12, 2019
    Imperialism

    Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

    By Hazel V. Carby  September 12, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Weinman: Why We’ve Always Misunderstood Lolita

    By The Maris Review  September 12, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Tim Desmond: Is the World More or Less F*ucked Up Than It Used to Be?

    By Just the Right Book   September 12, 2019
    Poets

    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
    The Paranormal

    Laura van den Berg on Divining the Unseeable, and Her Family’s History with the Paranormal

    By Laura van den Berg  September 11, 2019
    Economics

    From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible

    By Nicholas Lemann  September 11, 2019
    Otherppl

    Josh Gondelman on the Importance of Knowing Your Audience

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 11, 2019
    Reading Across America

    How to Attract Touring Authors to a City That Most Skip

    By Julia Dixon Evans  September 11, 2019
    5 Questions

    Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer’s Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace

    By Literary Hub  September 11, 2019
    Writers in Conversation

    What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand

    By Caits Meissner  September 11, 2019
    Astronomy

    The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter

    By John Johnson, Jr.  September 11, 2019
    Reading Women

    On Writing the Apocalypse Through a Crow’s Perspective

    By Reading Women  September 11, 2019
    Feminism

    Rebecca Fisseha on #MeToo in Ethiopia and Eritrea

    By Rebecca Fisseha  September 11, 2019
    Reading Lists

    So Many Damn Books Goes
    Back to School

    By So Many Damn Books  September 11, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Math

    From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspective

    By Amir Alexander  September 10, 2019
    Foreign Literature

    Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 10, 2019
    Identity

    Tash Aw: Living and Writing as a Divided Southeast-Asian

    By Tash Aw  September 10, 2019
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