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    I Think I Will Get Hung, but I Don’t Care As Long As I Get Breakfast

    By Kate Summerscale  July 12, 2016
    Feature

    When Marcel Proust Was an Anxious Debut Novelist

    By William C. Carter  July 11, 2016
    Feature

    Cynthia Ozick on the Letters of Saul Bellow

    By Cynthia Ozick  July 6, 2016
    Feature

    The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

    By David Remnick  July 5, 2016
    Feature

    On the Battle to Desegregate the Nation’s Libraries

    By Cynthia R. Greenlee  July 5, 2016
    Essay

    On the Comedy of History, and the Importance of a Good Joke

    By Christopher Bram  July 5, 2016
    Essay

    There Would Be No Fourth of July Without the Iroquois Nation

    By Bev Sellars  July 4, 2016
    Feature

    On the Fifth Anniversary of the Africa Writes Festival

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2016
    Feature

    The Unyielding Rituals of Little Britain

    By Lit Hub Photography  June 29, 2016
    Archives

    Handwritten Letters from From Legendary American Artists

    By Mary Savig  June 23, 2016
    Essay

    America Was Never Class-Free

    By Nancy Isenberg  June 21, 2016
    History

    On the Anniversary of Ethel Rosenberg’s Execution

    By Jillian Cantor  June 20, 2016
    Essay

    In Charleston, One Year Later

    By Shani Gilchrist  June 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    James Joyce: Genius, Jerk

    By Tim Parks  June 16, 2016
    Conversations

    Seven Ways to Hand-sell a Lost Modern Masterpiece

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2016
    Conversations

    When America Was On the Brink of a Second Revolution

    By Clara Bingham  June 2, 2016
    Feature

    Recovered Memory: On Finding 200 Rolls of Lost Film

    By Ron Haviv  May 30, 2016
    Excerpts

    Breaking Rockefeller

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 24, 2016
    Art

    On the Art and Writing of the 1980s (And Against the 90s)

    By Dale Peck  May 23, 2016
    History

    The Library the Gold Rush Built

    By Daniela Blei  May 23, 2016
    Feature

    Emerging from the Ruins of An American Dynasty

    By Frances Stroh  May 20, 2016
    Essay

    History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold

    By Janice P. Nimura  May 17, 2016
    Essay

    The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 12, 2016
    History

    Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 10, 2016
    Essay

    The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City

    By Andrew Dickson  May 10, 2016
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