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    Cundill History Prize

    Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

    By Literary Hub  October 14, 2020
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    Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

    By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
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    The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

    By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
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    How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States’ Influence in the Middle East

    By Rashid Khalidi  October 14, 2020
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    On Rethinking the ‘Modern’ in Modern Greece

    By Roderick Beaton  October 14, 2020
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    How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

    By Claudio Saunt  October 14, 2020
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    Bryan Washington’s new novel will be adapted for television.

    By Corinne Segal  October 13, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  October 13, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 12th to 18th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 12, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 9, 2020
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    Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police into a feature film.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 9, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Makenna Goodman, Hari Kunzru, and Sigrid Nunez

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 8, 2020
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    Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 8, 2020
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    Because there is no morality in capitalism, Fox News is getting its own imprint at HarperCollins.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 7, 2020
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    It’s been a bittersweet week for surf literature.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 7, 2020
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    Sarah Hall is the first writer to win the BBC Short Story Award twice.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
    The Hub

    Why now is a great time to read Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Poet Eric Gansworth in Conversation with Painter Andrea Carlson and Writer Heid Erdrich

    By Twenty Summers  October 6, 2020
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    The staff of The New Yorker is celebrating a well-earned union victory.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 6, 2020
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    Here are the finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 6, 2020
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    Good news break: a new journal, Air/Light, has launched.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
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    Ethan Hawke’s new (autobiographical) novel is full of rage and sex and longing and despair.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 5, 2020
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 5, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 5th-11th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 2, 2020
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