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    By Arvind Dilawar  February 19, 2016
    Did you know?

    The Women of Oscar Wilde

    By Eleanor Fitzsimons  February 18, 2016
    History

    The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

    By Belinda McKeon  February 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

    By Charles Simic  February 16, 2016
    Excerpts

    I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

    By Fang Lizhi  February 11, 2016
    Essay

    Remembering the Storyteller of Damascus, Before the War

    By Michelle Hoover  February 5, 2016
    Essay

    How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

    By Taylor Brown  February 3, 2016
    Essay

    You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

    By Matt Gallagher  February 2, 2016
    Essay

    Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War

    By Andrea Molesini  February 1, 2016
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    Travels to Nowhere

    By Lit Hub Photography  January 26, 2016
    Essay

    A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

    By James Green  January 25, 2016
    Essay

    A Novel of Putin’s Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

    By Will Evans  January 25, 2016
    Essay

    Are the Kids All Right?

    By Moira Weigel  January 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

    By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman  January 21, 2016
    History

    There’s No Place For Joy in Today’s Moscow

    By Sergei Lebedev  January 20, 2016
    History

    The Story of Segregation, One Photo at a Time

    By Lit Hub Photography  January 18, 2016
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Illustration

    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
    Essay

    The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes

    By Valerie Miles  January 6, 2016
    Essay

    A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

    By Samantha Hunt  January 4, 2016
    Essay

    The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing

    By Andrew Pettegree  December 28, 2015
    Feature

    A Brief History of the Hit Christmas Song

    By Ben Yagoda  December 21, 2015
    History

    A Brief, Wondrous History of Arabic Literature

    By Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey  December 11, 2015
    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
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    Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius

    By A.N. Devers  December 4, 2015
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