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    Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    By Lauren Groff  April 24, 2023
    Blume Fever

    Julie Buntin on the Uncanny Omniscience of Judy Blume

    By Julie Buntin  April 24, 2023
    Natural Horror

    The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  April 24, 2023
    What to Watch

    What is The Power Trying to Say?

    By Alexis Gunderson  April 24, 2023
    Friendship

    On Smuggling a Book Into the Psych Ward

    By Jonathan Rosen  April 24, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Black Shakespeare: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

    By History of Literature  April 24, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Sam Lee on the Musical Kinship Between Folk Music and Birdsong

    By Emergence Magazine  April 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Ruchira Gupta on Empowering Girls to Fight Against Child Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

    By Keen On  April 24, 2023
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    Faisal Saeed Al Mutar on Resisting Al Qaeda, Reading John Stuart Mill, and Eating a Good Kebab

    By Keen On  April 24, 2023
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    Peter Grinspoon, MD, Untangles the Truth About Marijuana

    By Keen On  April 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Hilary Mantel had an unpublished Jane Austen-inspired novel.

    By Janet Manley  April 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    Take a Sigh of Relief: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. is Wonderful

    By Olivia Rutigliano  April 21, 2023
    Climate Change Library

    Orion Recommends: Ten Essential Reads for Earth Day 2023

    By Orion Magazine  April 21, 2023
    The Lives of Women

    The Long History of a Woman Unencumbered With Children

    By Peggy O'Donnell Heffington  April 21, 2023
    Farming

    “No Bees, No Food.” How Insects Help Farmers With Their Harvest

    By Louise Gray  April 21, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much… Or Not Enough?

    By Tobias Carroll  April 21, 2023
    Meditation

    Missed Chances for Mindfulness: On Trying and Failing to Meditate

    By Zach Zimmerman  April 21, 2023
    The Hub

    The BBC is giving us a Lord of the Flies TV show.

    By Janet Manley  April 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Fanfic author would like credit for inventing Tolkien-spinoff The Rings of Power.

    By Janet Manley  April 20, 2023
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    Moronic anti-LGBTQ bullies kicked out of Barnes and Noble.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 20, 2023
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    Jamil Jan Kochai’s The Haunting of Hajji Hotak has won the 2023 Aspen Prize.

    By Janet Manley  April 20, 2023
    Friendships

    Why We All Need Dinner Parties in Our Lives

    By Natasha Feldman  April 20, 2023
    Games

    How Board Game Geek Helped Make Board Games More Inclusive

    By Aaron Trammell  April 20, 2023
    Pandemics

    What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

    By Emma Staffaroni  April 20, 2023
    Autofiction

    Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

    By Juan Velasquez  April 20, 2023
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