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

    By Ae Hee Lee  January 26, 2024
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    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 26, 2024
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    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
    I'm a Writer But

    Kate Brody on Subverting Genre

    By I'm a Writer But   January 23, 2024
    Children's Lit

    From Board Books to Middle Grade: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in January

    By Caroline Carlson  January 22, 2024
    Witches

    How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

    By Marion Gibson  January 22, 2024
    First Draft

    Jill McCorkle on Nostalgia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 22, 2024
    Subcultures

    Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

    By Moshe Kasher  January 22, 2024
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