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The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

Emily Hodgson Anderson Considers the Connective Power of Reading

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | June 3, 2024

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

R. Derek Black on Unlearning the Warped Ideology of Their White Nationalist Childhood

By R. Derek Black | May 30, 2024

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

Graham Caveney on Cancer, the Body and the Philosophy of Mortality

By Graham Caveney | May 30, 2024

Eternal Solace: Eve J. Chung on Tradition, Family and Mourning in Taiwan

Eternal Solace: Eve J. Chung on Tradition, Family and Mourning in Taiwan

“I do not idealize the afterlife, but that is largely because of the privilege I have in my present.”

By Eve J. Chung | May 29, 2024

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

"I was a girl in the imagination of others and nowhere else."

By KB Brookins | May 29, 2024

Remembering Paul Auster

Remembering Paul Auster

1947-2024

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2024

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“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”

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What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

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The Poetry of Chinese Names

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Wendy Chen on Generation Poems and the Stories Hidden in Names

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Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

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