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    Climate Activism

    Greta Thunberg: “This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”

    By Greta Thunberg  November 12, 2019
    Literature and Politics

    Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

    By Ava Homa  November 12, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  November 12, 2019
    Biology

    It Turns Out There’s Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

    By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis  November 12, 2019
    Medieval History

    Spanking, Signing, Reading:
    On the Medieval Use of Hands

    By Jack Hartnell  November 12, 2019
    Running

    Why Do We Run? On the Art of the Marathon Memoir

    By James M. Chesbro  November 12, 2019
    Emergence Magazine

    Introducing the LIC Reading Series Podcast

    By LIC Reading Series  November 12, 2019
    Craft

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for the Impatient Writer

    By Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut  November 11, 2019
    Masculinity

    Imran Siddiquee on the Problem with “New Masculinity”

    By Imran Siddiquee  November 11, 2019
    Abortion Rights

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

    By Jeffrey Rosen  November 11, 2019
    Politics

    What Was It Like to Be Edited by Barack Obama?

    By Adam Frankel  November 11, 2019
    Inspiration

    On the Line Between Plagiarism and Art

    By Grant Maierhofer  November 11, 2019
    Family Stories

    Why Families Keep Secrets:
    A Red Ink Conversation

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2019
    First Draft

    Kimi Eisele on Using Reality to Build a Post-Apocalyptic World

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 11, 2019
    Language

    Learning to Unsay the R-Word

    By Amy Silverman  November 11, 2019
    Education

    The Failure to Protect Our Children Where They Need It Most

    By Victoria Brown  November 11, 2019
    Nature Writing

    We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel

    By Emergence Magazine  November 11, 2019
    Literary Long Weekend

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Philadelphia

    By Literary Hub  November 10, 2019
    Social Media

    What Does “NSFW” Mean in the Age of Social Media?

    By Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, and Ben Light  November 8, 2019
    Berlin Wall

    Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

    By Olivia Giovetti  November 8, 2019
    Berlin Wall

    Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

    By Paul Vidich  November 8, 2019
    Writing Life

    The Wild, Impassioned World of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries

    By Kim Krizan  November 8, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

    By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
    American History

    On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission

    By Erica Armstrong Dunbar  November 8, 2019
    A Phone Call From Paul

    Maaza Mengiste: This Book Was ‘A Bone in My Body’

    By Literary Hub  November 8, 2019
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