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Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

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For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

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By Jonathan Rée | August 21, 2019

On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

How The Author of Les Misérables Became a Fixture of Cao Dai

By Abby Walthausen | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

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Charles Postel on the Temperance Crusade That Galvanized the American Women's Movement

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On the Failure of Language Around Women's Chronic Mental Illness

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Shane Jones on Throwing Away 40,000 Words

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Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

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In Celebration of Bernstein's 100th Birthday

By Walter Mosley | August 20, 2019

Western Democracy is on <br>Shaky Ground

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Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

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Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

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Nicola Waldron Wonders if Writing Can Be a Kink

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'Wedding Day' <br> A Poem by Seamus Heaney

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From the Collection 100 Poems

By Seamus Heaney | August 20, 2019

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

On Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, and the Hothouse of Parisian Art

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