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

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

Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Janeway

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 22, 2016

A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

In Which Food Poisoning is Diagnosed as "Culture Shock"

By Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman | January 21, 2016

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

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

Sergei Lebedev Mourns a City Sealed in Silence

By Sergei Lebedev | January 20, 2016

The Story of Segregation, One Photo at a Time

The Story of Segregation, One Photo at a Time

The insistent eye of Gordon Parks, Photojournalist

By Lit Hub Photography | January 18, 2016

A Brief History of Book Illustration

A Brief History of Book Illustration

Are We At the Start of Another Golden Age for Image/Text Collaboration?

By Chris Russell | January 14, 2016

The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes

The Life and Times of the Great Rafael Chirbes

"Literature Demands a Form of Aloneness That Can Be Unbearable"

By Valerie Miles | January 6, 2016

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By Ben Yagoda | December 21, 2015

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Truth, Beauty, and the Poetry of Islam

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

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By Namara Smith | December 8, 2015

Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius

Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius

How Brigid Hughes Discovered a Lost Writer, and Her Letters From Saul Bellow

By A.N. Devers | December 4, 2015

The Joy of Writing about <em>The Joy of Painting</em>

The Joy of Writing about The Joy of Painting

In Which Bob Ross is Compared to God, Creator of Worlds

By Toby Fehily | December 2, 2015

Custer's Trials

Custer's Trials

T. J. Stiles

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 2, 2015

Kathleen Alcott's Ghosts of Thanksgiving

Kathleen Alcott's Ghosts of Thanksgiving

In Search of Tradition, One House at a Time

By Kathleen Alcott | November 25, 2015

How Board Games Got Literary

How Board Games Got Literary

Books To Games and Back Again

By Tobias Carroll | November 19, 2015

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