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Heroic DC library staff trolls all-star conservative story hour with LGBTQ display.

 
By Jonny Diamond  March 30, 2023
Book Covers

The 11 Best Book Covers of March

By Emily Temple  March 30, 2023
What to Watch

The Big Door Prize Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

By Alexis Gunderson  March 30, 2023
Otherppl

“Suicidal Thinking is Just Another Kind of Addictive Thinking.” Clancy Martin on Healing Addiction and Suicidal Ideation

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 30, 2023
Animals

Therapy… Chickens? Tove Danovich on Finding Comfort in Feathered Friends

By Tove Danovich  March 30, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

By Fiction Non Fiction  March 30, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Literary Criticism

Allegra Hyde Offers an Existential Pitch for Saving the Planet

By Keen On  March 30, 2023
Keen On

Nicole Chung Tells a Personal Story of Family, Class, Anger, and Grief in an Unequal America

By Keen On  March 30, 2023
The Hub

Here are the 2023 Whiting Award winners.

By Literary Hub  March 29, 2023
The Hub

You can call the Booker Prize trophy ‘Iris.’

By Janet Manley  March 30, 2023
On Poetry

The Complicated Emotions of Reading a Poem at the White House

By Joshua Bennett  March 29, 2023
Biology

How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

By Ashley Ward  March 29, 2023
Behind the Book Cover

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

By Jason Booher  March 29, 2023
Children's Lit

On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

“A child who feels scolded or lectured to is less apt to pay attention.”

By Leonard S. Marcus  March 29, 2023
American History

How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco

By Lizzie Stark  March 29, 2023
The Hub

Chris Chalk will play James Baldwin in Capote’s Women.

By Dan Sheehan  March 28, 2023
The Hub

Did Truman Capote plagiarize Breakfast at Tiffany’s from Willa Cather?

By Janet Manley  March 28, 2023
The Hub

Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness prize.

By Janet Manley  March 28, 2023
Apocalypse

A Novel is Like a Camp: What Fiction Can Teach Us About Surviving the Slow Apocalypse

By Jess Row  March 28, 2023
Suicide

Clancy Martin on the Contradictions of Living Through Suicidal Moments

By Clancy Martin  March 28, 2023
Food Writing

Finding Memories of a Distant Home Through Milo Toast

By Rachel Heng  March 28, 2023
Nature Writing

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

Gina Chung on How Bats, Octopuses, and Other Animals Helped Her Better Understand Humanity

By Gina Chung  March 28, 2023
Keen On

Edward Lee on NFTs and the Seductive Promise of Creators Taking Control of Their Work

By Keen On  March 28, 2023
Keen On

Karl Schlogel Digs Up an Encyclopedic and Richly Detailed History of Everyday Life in the Soviet Union

By Keen On  March 28, 2023
The Hub

How did reactionary French novelist Michel Houellebecq end up in a Dutch arthouse porn?

By Jonny Diamond  March 29, 2023
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