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    Romance

    Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother’s Romance Novels

    By Isabelle Davis  August 15, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Brenda Wineapple on What We Can Learn from the First Impeachment

    By Just the Right Book   August 15, 2019
    Economics

    Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

    By Peter Lehr  August 15, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Lyz Lenz on Deserving to Be Heard

    By The Maris Review  August 15, 2019
    Diversity in Literature

    Fourteen-Year-Old Marley Dias, Tireless Promoter of Diversity in Literature

    By Matt Grant  August 15, 2019
    A Phone Call From Paul

    Sarah Broom on Revising the Map of Your Own Story

    By Literary Hub  August 15, 2019
    Science

    The Theranos Effect:
    When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds

    By Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis  August 14, 2019
    WWII

    The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

    By Maggie Paxson  August 14, 2019
    Cookbooks

    The Quiet Renaissance of India’s Community Cookbooks

    By Meher Mirza  August 14, 2019
    Reading Lists

    6 Books by Texan Writers You Need to Read

    By Kimberly King Parsons  August 14, 2019
    Memoir

    Sister Helen Prejean:
    My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

    By Helen Prejean  August 14, 2019
    Literary History

    Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

    By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
    Otherppl

    Juliet Escoria on Writing a Novel With No Redemptive Lesson at the End

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 14, 2019
    Reading Women

    Madhuri Vijay on the Outsider’s Perspective of the Kashmir Conflict

    By Reading Women  August 14, 2019
    In Translation

    Booksellers Recommend Their Favorite Books in Translation

    By Words Without Borders  August 14, 2019
    On Race

    Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

    By Ibram X. Kendi  August 13, 2019
    Literary Scams

    We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 13, 2019
    Weather

    A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

    By Lyall Watson  August 13, 2019
    Encyclopedias

    The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

    By David Carlin  August 13, 2019
    Memoir

    The Road to Oliver Sacks’

    By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 13, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Why Mira Jacob Keeps Coming Back to Toni Morrison’s Sula

    By So Many Damn Books  August 13, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    Hai-Dang Phan on Poetic Distance and Reenacting the Past

    By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2019
    Reading Lists

    A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

    By Abby Manzella  August 13, 2019
    Grammar

    38 Americanisms the British Can’t Bloody Stand

    By Gyles Brandreth  August 12, 2019
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