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On the Hollow Spectacle of Attaining American Citizenship

On the Hollow Spectacle of Attaining American Citizenship

José Orduña Takes on Oath, Shudders

By José Orduña | June 3, 2016

The Telling

The Telling

Zoe Zolbrod

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 27, 2016

Speaking Freely

Speaking Freely

Robert L. Bernstein

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 26, 2016

Prelude to a Friendship:

Prelude to a Friendship: "Denise Was Near to the Bone"

Paul Lisicky Remembers the Moment He Met a Lifelong Friend

By Paul Lisicky | May 23, 2016

The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

A Brief Look at a Dark Genre

By Candace Opper | May 20, 2016

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

On a Body of Work That Ends Without Ending

By Bridget Read | May 16, 2016

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When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

By Ana Castillo | May 13, 2016

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

By Garrard Conley | May 11, 2016

My Father the Song Poet

By Kao Kalia Yang | April 25, 2016

Mitchell S. Jackson's <em>The Residue Years</em>, Part One

Mitchell S. Jackson's The Residue Years, Part One

Premiering the Story of One Writer's Path from Prison to Publication

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2016

Was I a Torturer in Iraq?

Was I a Torturer in Iraq?

On Practicing "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" for the US Government

By Eric Fair | April 19, 2016

When Teaching is a Calling

When Teaching is a Calling

Win Bassett on Mentorship, Poetry, and Teaching Boys

By Win Bassett | April 14, 2016

The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

Benjamin Warner Recalls the Great Drought of '99, and a Single Bee Sting

By Benjamin Warner | April 12, 2016

The Iceberg

The Iceberg

Marion Coutts

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 7, 2016

On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

Kathryn Harrison on Aging, Asymmetry, and Looking in the Mirror

By Kathryn Harrison | April 7, 2016

A Fundamentalist Christian Discovers the Greater World

A Fundamentalist Christian Discovers the Greater World

Kelly Kerney Has an Awakening in College and Follows it All the Way to Guatemala

By Kelly Kerney | April 6, 2016

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