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    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    "Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."

     
    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Myisha Cherry on Forgiveness

    By Keen On  September 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Hugh Eakin on 1939, Pablo Picasso, and Modern Art in America

    By Keen On  September 27, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Dorothy Chan’s Return of the Chinese Femme.

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2023
    Writing Process

    “To Be A Writer, You Must Write:” How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

    By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Writing the Novel

    How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

    By Nora Fussner  September 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Slen on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

    By Keen On  September 26, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

    “Obviously, to me, words do make magic.”

    By Arwen Curry  September 27, 2023
    Activism

    How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Activism

    By Jonathan Eig  September 25, 2023
    Medicine

    “One of the Single Most Expensive Substances on the Planet”: The Insulin Crisis of the 21st Century

    By Stuart Bradwel  September 25, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Keen On

    Kerri Maher on Writing a Novel about Jane

    In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    By Keen On  September 25, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Stephanie Krzywonos on Re-imagining Antarctica

    By Emergence Magazine  September 25, 2023
    The Hub

    More of this, please: Ilya Kaminsky writes a poetic response to Giacometti.

    By Janet Manley  September 22, 2023
    Film History

    When A League of Their Own Started Casting, Actresses Took Over LA’s Batting Cages

    By Erin Carlson  September 22, 2023
    Militarism

    Agency, Power, and the Armed Forces: On the Shifting Role of Women at War

    Cynthia Enloe Considers the Various Feminist Approaches to Women in the Military

    By Cynthia Enloe  September 22, 2023
    What to Watch

    Literary Highlights from the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

    By Elissa Suh  September 22, 2023
    The Hub

    Pauls all the way down: Here’s the 2023 Booker Prize shortlist.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Read a 1962 review of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2023 Dos Passos prize.

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2023
    Shipwrecks

    All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

    By Fae Myenne Ng  September 21, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Brook Manville on How Democracy Can Survive

    By Keen On  September 26, 2023
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