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What Was Literary Twitter? </br>*The Champion*

What Was Literary Twitter?
The Champion

crowning our queen.

By Literary Hub | November 25, 2025

How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

Natan Last on the Unlikely Origins of Simon & Schuster, Random House and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

By Natan Last | November 25, 2025

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest

By Ed Simon | November 24, 2025

Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson’s Forgotten 1961 Classic <em>The Ha-Ha</em>

Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson’s Forgotten 1961 Classic The Ha-Ha

“The absurdity of existence, the often-simultaneous humor and terror in not knowing what life is for, is a theme echoed throughout the novel.”

By Melissa Broder | November 21, 2025

On Zohran Mamdani, Taylor Swift, and the Evolution of the Red Scare

On Zohran Mamdani, Taylor Swift, and the Evolution of the Red Scare

Aaron Boehmer Situates a True American Tradition in the 21st Century

By Aaron Boehmer | November 20, 2025

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others

By Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner | November 19, 2025

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Iida Turpeinen on Exploring Our Relationship With the Natural World Through Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari | November 18, 2025

The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

By John Hendrix | November 17, 2025

How the Human Brain Actually Gets Us From Point A to Point B

By John Edward Huth | November 14, 2025

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness

By Trenton B. Olsen | November 13, 2025

Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

Grace Walker: “Two lives, two minds, combining. It’s the idea that shaped my writing, and now, in a quieter way, my days.”

By Grace Walker | November 12, 2025

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Sarah Viren Talks to the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

By Sarah Viren | November 11, 2025

Maybe Don’t Talk to the <em>New York Times</em> About Zohran Mamdani

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
Would Prefer Not To

By Peter Coviello | November 7, 2025

So, <em>Do</em> Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?

So, Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?

Kristen R. Ghodsee on the Tangle of Sex, Money, and Women’s Independence

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | November 6, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I seemed to be reading a 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend.”

By Book Marks | November 6, 2025

What Donald Trump’s Isolationism Means For America—and the World

What Donald Trump’s Isolationism Means For America—and the World

Michael McFaul on the Challenges Facing the Liberal International Order From Outside and From Within

By Michael McFaul | November 5, 2025

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