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    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Keen On

    Kerri Maher on Writing a Novel about Jane

    By Keen On  September 25, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Stephanie Krzywonos on Re-imagining Antarctica

    By Emergence Magazine  September 25, 2023
    The Hub

    More of this, please: Ilya Kaminsky writes a poetic response to Giacometti.

    By Janet Manley  September 22, 2023
    Film History

    When A League of Their Own Started Casting, Actresses Took Over LA’s Batting Cages

    By Erin Carlson  September 22, 2023
    Militarism

    Agency, Power, and the Armed Forces: On the Shifting Role of Women at War

    By Cynthia Enloe  September 22, 2023
    What to Watch

    Literary Highlights from the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

    By Elissa Suh  September 22, 2023
    The Hub

    Pauls all the way down: Here’s the 2023 Booker Prize shortlist.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Read a 1962 review of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2023 Dos Passos prize.

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2023
    Shipwrecks

    All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

    By Fae Myenne Ng  September 21, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    Language

    What Makes Language Human?

    By Caleb Everett  September 21, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    Motherhood

    We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

    By Minna Dubin  September 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Kat Calvin on Fighting for Those Without Documentation

    By Keen On  September 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the cover for Amy Lin’s Here After.

    By Literary Hub  September 20, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

    By Arwen Curry  September 20, 2023
    Feminist History

    We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

    By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
    Animals

    Familiar Yet Strange: Why Turtles Are Worth Saving

    By Sy Montgomery  September 20, 2023
    Censorship

    Fire and Fury and the First Amendment: How Trump Tried to Censor His Critics

    By John Sargent  September 20, 2023
    Jewish History

    On the Rothschilds’ Myth in Literature and Film

    By Mike Rothschild  September 20, 2023
    Keen On

    John Sargent on His Adventures and Misadventures in Publishing

    By Keen On  September 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Brian Merchant on Lessons from the Luddites for Today

    By Keen On  September 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Two years later, a federal judge has ruled on the Bad Art Friend case.

    By Emily Temple  September 19, 2023
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