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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

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

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

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

By Charles Postel | August 21, 2019

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

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At the Crossroads Where Jamaica's History and Fictions Meet

At the Crossroads Where Jamaica's History and Fictions Meet

Marcia Douglas on the Clocktower of Half Way Tree Park

By Marcia Douglas | August 21, 2019

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

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

Reading Women Discuss the Writing of Abby Norman
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Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

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The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

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

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At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

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Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

The Authors of Gun Island and The Forest of Enchantments in Conversation

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Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

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For the Love of Horses, From Girlhood to Old Age

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