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Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

Or: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game

By Sara Martin | August 22, 2019

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

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir

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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

By Rajia Hassib | August 19, 2019

On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

Anna Sherman Maps Sites of Hidden Desires

By Anna Sherman | August 16, 2019

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

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Of a Childhood in New Orleans

By Sarah M. Broom | August 15, 2019

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Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

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The Road to Oliver Sacks'

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Lawrence Weschler on Meeting a Then-Unknown 48-Year-Old Neurologist

By Lawrence Weschler | August 13, 2019

Gregory Orr on Rebuilding a Life When Nothing Makes Sense

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"I’d need to find new meanings if I were to survive."

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The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

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Susan Harlan on Rekindling an Old Friendship in the City of Lights

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Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

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A Very Unlucky Postcard

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Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

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Amanda Lee Koe on the Icon Who Found Her When She Needed It Most

By Amanda Lee Koe | August 7, 2019

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

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and?"">"Why are we in the West so deeply uncomfortable with and?"

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