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    TFW You Realize Maybe David Markson Invented Twitter

    By Mary Duffy  September 16, 2015
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    A Literary History of the Nose

    By Dustin Illingworth  September 1, 2015
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    Literary Montauk: And Then We Came to the End

    By Henry Stewart  August 31, 2015
    Biography

    Beyond Anne Frank

    By Alexandra Zapruder  August 28, 2015
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    The Tracks

    By Jenn Shapland  August 27, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Moral Panic and the Myth of Recovered Memory

    By Richard Beck  August 18, 2015
    Feature

    Lolita: From Transgressive Lit to Pop Iconography

    By Rebecca Brill  August 18, 2015
    Essay

    Memorializing the Unknown Dead

    By Wendy S. Walters  August 12, 2015
    History

    A Very Brief History of Police Killings in the U.S.

    By Metta Sáma  August 11, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Rise of the Narco, Fall of the Vocho

    By Álvaro Enrigue  August 5, 2015
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    The First Reading James Salter Ever Gave

    By Literary Hub  July 22, 2015
    Excerpts

    Ta-Nehisi Coates: Of Plunder and the Killing Fields

    By Ta-Nehisi Coates  July 16, 2015
    Essay

    Nikola Tesla, An Alien Intelligence

    By Samantha Hunt  July 9, 2015
    Essay

    Desire Lines: From Slave Ships to the 9th Ward

    By Brenda Quant  July 8, 2015
    Did you know?

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: Renting the American Dream

    By Alex Brunkhorst  June 30, 2015
    Essay

    Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

    By Joshua Cohen  June 30, 2015
    Did you know?

    The Strand in Pictures

    By Interview with a Bookstore  June 29, 2015
    Conversation

    Beyond Gay Marriage

    By Alexander Chee  June 26, 2015
    Novelists

    The Evolution of the Great Gay Novel

    By Rebecca Brill  June 26, 2015
    Essay

    When James Joyce Met Sylvia Beach

    By Kevin Birmingham  June 16, 2015
    Essay

    The Greatest Forgotten Home Run of All Time

    By Martín Espada  June 15, 2015
    Novelists

    Saul Bellow’s Nobel Lecture from 1976

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2015
    Archives

    Saul Bellow Wins the 1954 National Book Award!

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2015
    Deep Dive

    The Life of Saul Bellow

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 10, 2015
    Conversation

    Jim Shepard: in the Shadows of the Holocaust

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 9, 2015
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