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    Big Table

    Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

    By Big Table  August 31, 2021
    Narrative

    A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

    By Aimee Bender  August 30, 2021
    Shakespeare

    The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

    By Robert McCrum  August 30, 2021
    Children's Literature

    Imaginary Kingdoms: On the Power of Literature That Speaks to Children and Adults Alike

    By Stephen Prickett  August 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

    By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
    The History of Literature

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    War

    How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

    By Richard Barnett  August 27, 2021
    Class

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    By Sarah Jaffe  August 27, 2021
    Westerns

    On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

    By Gordy Sauer  August 27, 2021
    Journalism

    On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

    By Amy Wright  August 27, 2021
    Labor

    How Come We Don’t Know More About the Largest Labor Battle in the History of the United States?

    By Jeffrey Webb  August 27, 2021
    Research

    How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

    By Kia Corthron  August 27, 2021
    Criticism

    Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
    Faith

    Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

    By Jaye Viner  August 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

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    Reading Lists

    10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

    By Emily Temple  August 25, 2021
    Criticism

    On Finally Being Old Enough
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    By Adam Bonislawski  August 25, 2021
    The Hub

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    Reading Lists

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    Christianity

    JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

    By Jonathan Walker  August 24, 2021
    Trees

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    By Christopher Cox  August 23, 2021
    Friendship

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    By Francine Prose  August 23, 2021
    Neurodiversity

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    By Steve Edwards  August 23, 2021
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