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    A Woman Alone in China

    By Virginia Pye  October 14, 2015
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    The Children of Chernobyl, In Their Own Words

    By Svetlana Alexievich  October 13, 2015
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    By Amy Brady  October 13, 2015
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    Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library

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    The Unseen Theft of America’s Literary History

    By Travis McDade  October 8, 2015
    Essay

    Black Voices Matter: The Genius of Jeffery Renard Allen

    By Charles Johnson  October 6, 2015
    Essay

    Jeanette Winterson Rewrites Shakespeare

    By Jeanette Winterson  October 6, 2015
    History

    Did It Really Happen? Fact, Fiction, Fate

    By Leslie Pietrzyk  October 5, 2015
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    The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 1, 2015
    Essay

    Identities Adrift Off the American Shore

    By Joohwan Kim  September 30, 2015
    Essay

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    By Debarati Sanyal  September 28, 2015
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    How The French Think

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 28, 2015
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    Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 22, 2015
    Essay

    TFW You Realize Maybe David Markson Invented Twitter

    By Mary Duffy  September 16, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of the Nose

    By Dustin Illingworth  September 1, 2015
    Essay

    Literary Montauk: And Then We Came to the End

    By Henry Stewart  August 31, 2015
    Biography

    Beyond Anne Frank

    By Alexandra Zapruder  August 28, 2015
    Essay

    The Tracks

    By Jenn Shapland  August 27, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Moral Panic and the Myth of Recovered Memory

    By Richard Beck  August 18, 2015
    Feature

    Lolita: From Transgressive Lit to Pop Iconography

    By Rebecca Brill  August 18, 2015
    Essay

    Memorializing the Unknown Dead

    By Wendy S. Walters  August 12, 2015
    History

    A Very Brief History of Police Killings in the U.S.

    By Metta Sáma  August 11, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Rise of the Narco, Fall of the Vocho

    By Álvaro Enrigue  August 5, 2015
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    The First Reading James Salter Ever Gave

    By Literary Hub  July 22, 2015
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates: Of Plunder and the Killing Fields

    By Ta-Nehisi Coates  July 16, 2015
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