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    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 1, 2016
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    By Tim Sultan  February 26, 2016
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    By Arvind Dilawar  February 19, 2016
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    By Eleanor Fitzsimons  February 18, 2016
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    The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

    By Belinda McKeon  February 17, 2016
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    Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

    By Charles Simic  February 16, 2016
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    I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

    By Fang Lizhi  February 11, 2016
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    By Michelle Hoover  February 5, 2016
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    How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

    By Taylor Brown  February 3, 2016
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    You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

    By Matt Gallagher  February 2, 2016
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    Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War

    By Andrea Molesini  February 1, 2016
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    A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

    By James Green  January 25, 2016
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    A Novel of Putin’s Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

    By Will Evans  January 25, 2016
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    Are the Kids All Right?

    By Moira Weigel  January 22, 2016
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    Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 22, 2016
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    A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

    By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman  January 21, 2016
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    By Sergei Lebedev  January 20, 2016
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    By Lit Hub Photography  January 18, 2016
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    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
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    The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes

    By Valerie Miles  January 6, 2016
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    A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

    By Samantha Hunt  January 4, 2016
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    The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing

    By Andrew Pettegree  December 28, 2015
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