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    The world pays respect to Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana’s late author-playwright.

    By Janet Manley  May 31, 2023
    The Hub

    Channing Tatum dropped some sparkle onto Books Are Magic.

    By Janet Manley  May 31, 2023
    Family Stories

    The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir

    By Kelly McMasters  May 31, 2023
    Trans History

    How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

    By Grace Lavery  May 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 31, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Why David Sedaris Still Keeps His Daily Diary

    By Talk Easy  May 31, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2023
    Design

    A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

    By Edwin Heathcote  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Elise Loehnen on Why Women Should Indulge Their Sinful Sides

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    Motherhood

    No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

    By Monica Potts  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    How Hugh Howey Imagines the Real World as a Science Fictional Version of Reality

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    Bookstores

    The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

    By Alba Donati  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    The Hub

    Read the first reviews of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 30, 2023
    The Hub

    ChatGPT is basically a Gen X’er who stopped reading in 12th grade.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 30, 2023
    The Hub

    Critics really hate Josh Hawley’s stupid book about manhood.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 30, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Leslie Marmon Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds.”

    By Emily Temple  May 30, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 30, 2023
    Journalism

    On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

    By David Chrisinger  May 30, 2023
    Chefs

    From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

    By Laura Tillman  May 30, 2023
    Queer History

    Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

    By Amelia Possanza  May 30, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Boyce Upholt: Legal Protections for the Saguaro Cactus and Recognizing the Dignity of All Life

    By Emergence Magazine  May 30, 2023
    First Draft

    Mona Simpson on Reimagining Mental Health Hospitals in Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 30, 2023
    What to Watch

    Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener Doesn’t See the Forest for the Trees

    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 26, 2023
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