What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

Rachel Donohue on the Character That Wouldn't Leave Her Alone

By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

Emily Austin Navigates the Grief That Lurks Within the Best of Memories

By Emily Austin | July 8, 2021

How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

Emily Bass on Foreign Aid and America's Response to Long-Standing Pandemics

By Emily Bass | July 8, 2021

How College Rankings Created the Student Debt Crisis

How College Rankings Created the Student Debt Crisis

Susan Paterno in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 8, 2021

WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate Change

WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate Change

From the Border Crossings' ORIGINS Festival

By Literary Hub | July 8, 2021

<em>The Quiet Boy</em> by Ben H. Winters, Read by William DeMeritt

The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters, Read by William DeMeritt

A Fast-Paced and Twisted Story

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How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

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Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

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Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

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In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

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On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s <em>The Emigrants</em>

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | July 7, 2021

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

Julia Baird on the Long, Hard Work of Activism

By Julia Baird | July 7, 2021

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

Encounters With a Nation, Then and Now

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On the Power of the “Unlinked” Story Collection

On the Power of the “Unlinked” Story Collection

Chris Stuck Recommends Books by James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, and More

By Chris Stuck | July 7, 2021

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

David Chrisinger on Trying to Tell the Story of His Family

By David Chrisinger | July 7, 2021

Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

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