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Beyond <em>Brown</em>: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America's Lingering Racial Fault Lines

Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America's Lingering Racial Fault Lines

Michelle Adams on the Ongoing Legal Struggle For Educational and Racial Equality Across the United States

By Michelle Adams | January 15, 2025

Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

Zeinab Badawi Explores the African Origins of Humanity's Earliest Ancestors

By Zeinab Badawi | January 15, 2025

My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

Layne Fargo Explores the Power of Celebrating Others' Literary Success (and Why Their Success Is Also Yours)

By Layne Fargo | January 15, 2025

Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: <br>On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English:
On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

Sahar Delijani Navigates the Complexity of Conjuring Her Old Life in a New Language

By Sahar Delijani | January 14, 2025

From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

“We’re raising eidolons, real and not-real, tales that move and breathe and stand side by side, speaking Troy into the future.”

By Maria Zoccola | January 14, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Pico Iyer, Karissa Chen, Betty Shamieh and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 14, 2025

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In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

By Edward Underhill | January 14, 2025

Defying Empire: On the Perennially Relevant Political Message of Wicked

By Aaron Boehmer | January 13, 2025

An Emotional Time Machine: How Our Sense of Smell Can Unlock Childhood Memories

By Jonas Olofsson | January 13, 2025

The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali

The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali

The Authors of “The Story Game” and “The River, The Town” Discuss Memory, c-PTSD, and the Ethics of Re-Imagining

By Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali | January 13, 2025

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

The “Author of Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo” Story in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2025

Paolo Bacigalupi on Building Worlds

Paolo Bacigalupi on Building Worlds

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 13, 2025

Susan Lieu on Not Letting the Past Stay in the Past

Susan Lieu on Not Letting the Past Stay in the Past

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | January 13, 2025

Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

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By Brittany Allen | January 10, 2025

My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

Lauren Carroll Harris Develops a New Theory of the Leisure Class Influencer

By Lauren Carroll Harris | January 10, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: (Some) Most Anticipated Books of 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: (Some) Most Anticipated Books of 2025

featuring audio recs from the Lit Hub staff

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 10, 2025

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