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    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    By Kliph Nesteroff  December 8, 2023
    Culinary History

    Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

    By Gareth Russell  December 8, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

    By Richard Hugo  December 8, 2023
    Family Stories

    Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

    By Channler Twyman  December 8, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Thérèse Plummer and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Romance Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Ben Lerner on the Dangers of Digital Technology

    By Keen On  December 8, 2023
    Best of 2023

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    Censorship

    Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

    By Moira Marquis  December 7, 2023
    Adventurers

    After Australia: Robyn Davidson on Discovering Her Next Adventure

    By Robyn Davidson  December 7, 2023
    Motherhood

    Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

    By Jessica Moore  December 7, 2023
    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Critical Race Theory

    Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today’s Villains

    By The Maris Review  December 7, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 7, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Daniel Henning and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 7, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  December 6, 2023
    Children's Lit

    My Year in Reading Children’s Books

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Eileen Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

    By Emmeline Clein  December 6, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    Precarious Liminality: How Parole Keeps Ex-Prisoners Stranded Between Two Worlds

    By Ben Austen  December 6, 2023
    The Natural World

    Colonizing Plants: How Bougainvillea Conquered the World

    By Shahnaz Habib  December 6, 2023
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

    By Marlon Hacla  December 6, 2023
    The History of Literature

    David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare’s White Others

    By History of Literature  December 6, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    Adenrele Ojo and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 6, 2023
    Beauty

    More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

    By Zahra Hankir  December 5, 2023
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