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    Write-minded

    Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

    By Write-minded   January 29, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  January 26, 2024
    On Writing

    Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

    By William Maxwell  January 26, 2024
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  January 26, 2024
    Medical history

    More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

    By Gary Taubes  January 26, 2024
    Poetry

    “Self-Portrait as Sister.” A Poem by Ae Hee Lee

    By Ae Hee Lee  January 26, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 26, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 25, 2024
    Postcolonialism

    The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

    By Adam Shatz  January 25, 2024
    Film History

    How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

    By Odie Henderson  January 25, 2024
    The Holocaust

    Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

    By József Debreczeni  January 25, 2024
    Reckonings

    What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 25, 2024
    The History of Literature

    David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

    By History of Literature  January 25, 2024
    Revision

    Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

    By Laurie Frankel  January 24, 2024
    Philosophy

    Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

    By Brian Klaas  January 24, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

    By Literary Hub  January 24, 2024
    Texas

    Weirding the West: Strange Tales That Complicate the Picture of Texas

    By Elizabeth Gonzalez James  January 24, 2024
    Recipes

    Crystal Wilkinson on the Importance of Birthdays in the Black Community

    By Crystal Wilkinson  January 24, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Dan Levy on Not Fearing Sincerity

    By Talk Easy  January 24, 2024
    Resistance

    Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

    By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Zachary Pace on the Push and Pull of Working in Publishing as a Writer

    By Zachary Pace  January 23, 2024
    Creative Nonfiction

    How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

    By Lee Gutkind  January 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 23, 2024
    Suburbia

    White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

    By Benjamin Herold  January 23, 2024
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