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    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 16, 2025
    The Hub

    The Abrams Union wants a “more equitable, ethical, and transparent” publisher.

    By James Folta  May 16, 2025
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

    By Hannah Benson  May 16, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Real Literary Hoaxes and the Abrams Union Drive

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    The Natural World

    A Volatile Proposition: Exploring Life Inside Earth’s Most Extreme Environments

    By Karen G. Lloyd  May 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall”

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 15, 2025
    Bookstores

    Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

    By Monica Macansantos  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  May 16, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

    By Laura Spinney  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    What Does It Mean to Forgive Your Mother?

    Jessica Levine Grapples with the Complexity of Release

    By Jessica Levine  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Oh good, Audible is planning to start using AI narrators and translators.

    By James Folta  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Mariana Enriquez, tr. Megan McDowell, “My Sad Dead”

    By Drew Broussard  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

    By Literary Hub  May 14, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

    By Mark Hussey  May 14, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    100 Book Covers for Mrs. Dalloway

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    Alex Foster on What Draws Us to Doomsday Fantasies, and Why We Should Resist the Urge to Indulge Them

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Immortality

    Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

    By Amy Larocca  May 14, 2025
    The Internet Age

    Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

    By Ling Ling Huang  May 14, 2025
    Ancient History

    The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

    By Rachel McCarthy James  May 15, 2025
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