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One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | August 6, 2019

No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: On Food Insecurity in Small-town Maine

No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: On Food Insecurity in Small-town Maine

“Hunger is a stress we can’t measure.”

By Kerri Arsenault | July 8, 2019

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

On the Canny Cro-Magnon Woman in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children Series

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

I Read One Hundred Books<br> Just to Write One

I Read One Hundred Books
Just to Write One

Heather O'Neill on the Compulsive Joy of Endless Research

By Heather O'Neill | June 26, 2019

Cover Reveal: <em>Freeman's</em> California Issue

Cover Reveal: Freeman's California Issue

John Freeman and Michael Salu on Visions of the Golden State

By Literary Hub | June 10, 2019

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

Saskia Vogel Profiles the Author of Acts of Infidelity

By Saskia Vogel | May 23, 2019

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'Camp Fire,' A Poem by sam sax

By Sam Sax | May 20, 2019

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'Original Fire,'
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By Louise Erdrich | May 10, 2019

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."

By Allison Markin Powell | May 8, 2019

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

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What's Not to Love About Descriptions of Food and Strong Opinions About Poets?

By Gerður Kristný | May 7, 2019

Deborah Landau, Writing Poems For<br> an Unsafe World

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In Conversation with the Author of Soft Targets

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Jenni Fagan: "If a Poem Wants Written at 3 am I Get Up."

On the Urgency and Necessity of Writing Poetry

By Jenni Fagan | April 3, 2019

Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?

Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?

Pola Oloixarac on the Ungoogleable Lightness of Being

By Pola Oloixarac | March 28, 2019

Why the Robot Takeover Isn't Coming Any Time Soon

Why the Robot Takeover Isn't Coming Any Time Soon

Without Platonic Dialectics, They Can't Really Understand Language

By Lena Andersson | March 27, 2019

How Barry Lopez Got Me Through a Backcountry Winter

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Bryce Andrews on Of Wolves and Men

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