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    How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

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    Politics

    “Diversity in Publishing” Doesn’t Exist—But Here’s How it Can

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    Excerpts

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    Profile

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    Excerpts

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    Conversations

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    Personal Essay

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    By Musa Okwonga  October 6, 2017
    Poets

    Beauty, a Poem by Solmaz Sharif

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    Excerpts

    The Story I Tell Myself About My Father’s Death

    By Sharon Harrigan  October 6, 2017
    Memoir

    Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

    By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

    By Peter Sahlins  October 6, 2017
    Design

    40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2017
    Profile

    Kazuo Ishiguro on Song Lyrics, Scones, and the Life He Could Have Had

    By John Freeman  October 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 5, 2017
    Awards

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    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2017
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    Lit Hub Daily: October 5, 2017

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    Jesmyn Ward on the Hauntings of History

    By Michele Filgate  October 5, 2017
    Advice

    Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Lecture: Why I Write

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    Deep Dive

    Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

    By Meghan O'Rourke  October 5, 2017
    Criticism

    Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

    By John Biguenet  October 5, 2017
    Criticism

    If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It’s Not Universal

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 5, 2017
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