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    Writing Community

    “The Act of Writing is a Haunting Experience.” A Roundtable on Community, Craft, and Ghosts

    By Literary Hub  March 20, 2024
    Poetry

    “One Function of the Line Is to Order, Another Is to Cut,” a Poem by Zefyr Lisowski

    By Zefyr Lisowski  March 20, 2024
    Identity

    Colorism, Code-Switching, and Shapeshifting: Readings on Biracial Identity

    By Ela Lee  March 20, 2024
    Human Nature

    Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

    By Elspeth Barker  March 20, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Lily Kelting on Holy Terroir

    By Emergence Magazine  March 20, 2024
    The History of Literature

    J. Edward Chamberlin on How Words Shape Our World

    By History of Literature  March 20, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Emily Connelly on Why She Loves Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   March 20, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame

    By Cameron Manley  March 19, 2024
    Literary Friendships

    What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

    By Rachel Cohen  March 19, 2024
    Biology

    How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

    By Venki Ramakrishnan  March 19, 2024
    In Conversation

    Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 19, 2024
    Divorce

    Marriage Plots Are Soooo Last Season: 8 Novels About Divorce

    By Rowan Beaird  March 19, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Michele Cobb on Why She Loves Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   March 19, 2024
    Reading Lists

    30 New Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

    By Literary Hub  March 18, 2024
    On Translation

    How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

    By Rhonda Mullins  March 18, 2024
    Spies

    Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

    By Valorie Castellanos Clark  March 18, 2024
    Basketball

    How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Scott Howard-Cooper  March 18, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Between Assimilation and Authenticity: On Navigating Discourses Around Asian American Literary Identity

    By Laura Chow Reeve  March 18, 2024
    Activism

    Francophone, Anglophone… Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

    By Musih Tedji Xaviere  March 18, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Celebrating 1500 Episodes of Behind the Mic with Robin Whitten

    By Behind the Mic   March 18, 2024
    First Draft

    Téa Obreht on How She Found The Morningside

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 18, 2024
    Write-minded

    Lissa Soep on Other People’s Words

    By Write-minded   March 18, 2024
    The Bible

    Sacrifice and Obedience: Marilynne Robinson on the Timeless Tale of Abraham and Isaac

    By Marilynne Robinson  March 15, 2024
    Missed Connections

    On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

    By Melissa Pritchard  March 15, 2024
    Book Design

    Not Just Covers, But Every Page: Why Writers Should Talk About Book Design Early On

    By Debbie Berne  March 15, 2024
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