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What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

Ramie Targoff on the Hidden History of Women Writers of the English Renaissance

By Ramie Targoff | March 13, 2024

Gloriously Grotesque: How the Cherry Sisters Personified “So Bad It’s Good”

Gloriously Grotesque: How the Cherry Sisters Personified “So Bad It’s Good”

Therese Oneill on the Overlooked Value of Being Your Carefree, Cringeworthy Self

By Therese Oneill | March 11, 2024

17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

Annabelle Hirsch Explores the History of Female Self-Pleasure

By Annabelle Hirsch | March 6, 2024

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman Chronicle Everyday Life in a Disintegrating Community

By Judith Freeman and Jim Mangan | March 4, 2024

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Literary Hub is Seeking a Regular, Part-Time Writer

Do You Have Strong Opinions About Books and Stuff?

By Literary Hub | March 1, 2024

Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

Melissa Blair on Writing the Indigenous-Centered Book She Wanted as a Schoolchild

By Melissa Blair | March 1, 2024

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Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

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Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

By Keren Blankfeld | February 28, 2024

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life

By Patrick Joyce | February 28, 2024

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

Considering the Central Role of Community and Solidarity in Stories of Marginalization

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin | February 27, 2024

The Man Who Remembered Everything—and Thought It Was Normal

The Man Who Remembered Everything—and Thought It Was Normal

Charan Ranganath on the Famous Case of Solomon Shereshevsky

By Charan Ranganath | February 26, 2024

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

“We don’t just need the summary version of the diasporic experience, we need every story.”

By Shayla Lawson | February 26, 2024

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Kimberly Juanita Brown on the Long, Global Tradition of the Antiblack Gaze

By Kimberly Juanita Brown | February 23, 2024

The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery Consider Our Fraught Coexistence With the Most Feared of Marine Monsters

By Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery | February 23, 2024

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