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    Punk

    Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

    By Vivien Goldman  May 9, 2019
    Recovery

    The Struggle to Learn Nonviolence in a Violent Place

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  May 9, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Erin Somers on Making Her Debut Novel Approachable… to Herself

    By The Maris Review  May 9, 2019
    Plagues

    How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

    By David K. Randall  May 9, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

    By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
    Lost and Found

    One German’s Two-Decade Search for a Poem She Couldn’t Quite Name

    By Susanne Tägder  May 9, 2019
    Libraries

    A Library for the Ragpickers
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    By Priyanka Sacheti  May 9, 2019
    Refugees

    Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

    By Alev Scott  May 9, 2019
    In Memoriam

    In Memoriam: Stanley Plumly

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    Classics: Complicated

    The Call of the Wild: Confronting Nature and Existential Terror

    By Literary Disco  May 9, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 8, 2019

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    Talking shop

    Emily Bell on What It Was Like to Edit Lucia Berlin

    By Reading Women  May 8, 2019
    History of Food

    Why Are American Men So
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    By Joshua Specht  May 8, 2019
    Storytelling

    What Would It Mean to Live in
    a World Without Stories?

    By Alexis Wright  May 8, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Existential Dread and the Art
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    By Jonathan Gornall  May 8, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Damian Barr Moves From Memoir to Fiction and Finds Inspiration in a Real Life Crime

    By Daneet Steffens  May 8, 2019
    American Presidents

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    By Douglas Brinkley  May 8, 2019
    Japanese Literature

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    By Allison Markin Powell  May 8, 2019
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Lilliam Rivera on Writing Teenage Girls from the Bronx

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 8, 2019
    The West

    On the Unsung Lives
    of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

    By Gordon H. Chang  May 8, 2019
    Fairytales

    Rebecca Solnit on Setting Cinderella Free for Contemporary Readers

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 7, 2019
    PEN World Voices

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    By Matt Grant  May 7, 2019
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