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The Issues 2024: Going Deep on the Problem of Income Inequality

The Issues 2024: Going Deep on the Problem of Income Inequality

Introducing the First in a Series of In-Depth Looks at the Everyday Issues Facing Americans

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2024

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

Alejandro Zambra: “All I have to do is sit beside you...and read to you the parts of the book that have words...”

By Alejandro Zambra | October 8, 2024

“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

From Barroom Chats with Raymond Carver to the Aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger Explores Class Consciousness in American Letters

By Douglas Unger | October 7, 2024

On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

Steve Wasserman Deconstructs the “Writer’s Space”

By Steve Wasserman | October 7, 2024

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

Elias Altman Remembers His Boss' Advice on Writing, Editing, and When a Deal's a Deal

By Elias Altman | October 7, 2024

Nicer in Hindi: Sayantani Dasgupta on Living Between Three Languages

Nicer in Hindi: Sayantani Dasgupta on Living Between Three Languages

"Who am I? Am I really me, or an echo of all these others?"

By Sayantani Dasgupta | October 3, 2024

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“Brilliant, Unquiet Minds.” Remembering the Writers Who Struggled With Their Demons

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Betsy Lerner Considers the Difficult Yet Important Work of Publishing Messy and Vulnerable Stories

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The Price of “Progress.” On Development, Displacement and Dictatorship in the Amazon

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José Henrique Bortoluci Explores Familial and Collective Memory of Authoritarian Rule in Brazil

By José Henrique Bortoluci | October 1, 2024

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

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Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Weird No More: On Loving and Leaving Austin, Texas

Weird No More: On Loving and Leaving Austin, Texas

Alex Hannaford Considers the Rapidly Changing Face of a Once-Affordable Artistic and Cultural Center

By Alex Hannaford | October 1, 2024

A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

Dionne Brand: “I now recognize myself as authored, altered. As selected, sorted, from a series of selves.”

By Dionne Brand | October 1, 2024

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Jarod K. Anderson Rediscovers Awe

By Jarod K. Anderson | September 30, 2024

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Lizza Aiken on the Responsibility of Maintaining Her Mother's Literary Legacy

By Lizza Aiken | September 30, 2024

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