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    Shakespeare is Dead: Six Hot Takes

    By Literary Hub  April 25, 2016
    History

    Shakespeare and His Stuff

    By Literary Hub  April 25, 2016
    Poets

    Remembering the Poets Who Fought For Irish Independence

    By Jared Spears  April 22, 2016
    Essay

    On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

    By Michael Peck  April 21, 2016
    Essay

    How I Write History: Or, A Window Into My Crazy

    By Neal Bascomb  April 19, 2016
    Essay

    In Search of the Darkest Cult in American History

    By Laura Elizabeth Woollett  April 15, 2016
    Essay

    Adam Gopnik on the Ur-Gentrification Story of Place des Vosges

    By Adam Gopnik  April 14, 2016
    Essay

    Why Wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

    By Rumaan Alam  April 11, 2016
    Essay

    Women in Publishing 100 Years Ago: A Historical VIDA Count

    By Rachel McCarthy James  March 31, 2016
    Essay

    Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?

    By Katy Simpson Smith  March 30, 2016
    Essay

    How to Be a Whaler’s Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

    By Shirley Barrett  March 23, 2016
    Essay

    Donald Trump’s Sentimental Journey to the Top

    By Kristen Martin  March 22, 2016
    Essay

    A Brief History of New York Values

    By David Reid  March 22, 2016
    Design

    Celebrating 75 Years of Paper Dolls

    By Literary Hub  March 18, 2016
    Excerpts

    Classical Literature

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 16, 2016
    Essay

    A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf…

    By Doris Grumbach  March 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Washington’s Immortals

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 10, 2016
    Poets

    Inside the Unpublished World of Allen Ginsberg

    By Bill Morgan  March 2, 2016
    History

    The Silk Roads

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 1, 2016
    Essay

    Superhero Journalists on the Silver Screen

    By Nandini Balial  February 26, 2016
    Excerpts

    Henry James: Autobiographies

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 26, 2016
    Biography

    When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

    By Tim Sultan  February 26, 2016
    Feature

    Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

    By Arvind Dilawar  February 19, 2016
    Did you know?

    The Women of Oscar Wilde

    By Eleanor Fitzsimons  February 18, 2016
    History

    The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

    By Belinda McKeon  February 17, 2016
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