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Playing the "Bigly" Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

“It’s Not Whether you Win or Lose, it’s Whether You Win”

By Fiona Helmsley | August 16, 2017

How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

Stephanie Gangi Records Every Moment of Intentional Contact in Seven Days

By Stephanie Gangi | August 15, 2017

Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Geoff Hilsabeck Considers a Country at War, and the Artists Within

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck | August 15, 2017

When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

Motels, Broken Dreams, and Mysterious Men Asking Questions

By Kamila Shamsie | August 14, 2017

Beyond the High Blue Air

Beyond the High Blue Air

Lu Spinney

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 14, 2017

Is <em>The Dark Tower</em> the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

Is The Dark Tower the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

On Solipsistic Storytelling and the Limits of King-as-Genre

By J.W. McCormack | August 11, 2017

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To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

By Linnea Hartsuyker | August 10, 2017

Celebrating Women Writers & Readers With the Romance Writers of America

By Tessa Dare | August 10, 2017

John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

By John Berger | August 9, 2017

Respectability Will Not Save Us

Respectability Will Not Save Us

On the History of Respectability Politics and their Failure to Keep Black Americans Safe

By Carol Anderson | August 9, 2017

Naked Ladies and Weird, Invisible Men

Naked Ladies and Weird, Invisible Men

What Carina Chocano Learned from her Grandfather's Playboy Collection

By Carina Chocano | August 8, 2017

From Squalor to Salon: The Amazing, Improbable Life of Emma Reyes

From Squalor to Salon: The Amazing, Improbable Life of Emma Reyes

Daniel Alarcón Traces the Journey of a Great Colombian Artist

By Daniel Alarcon | August 8, 2017

Working Less Can Save the World (and Other Philosophies of Surfing)

Working Less Can Save the World (and Other Philosophies of Surfing)

Hanging Ten With Kant and Sartre

By Aaron James | August 7, 2017

The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

On Aphra Behn, Playwright and Punk-Poetess of the 17th Century

By Janet Todd | August 7, 2017

What's America's Best-Loved Book?

What's America's Best-Loved Book?

The Week in Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | August 4, 2017

Remembering Editor Judith Jones

Remembering Editor Judith Jones

Editing Updike, Julia Child, and saving The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 4, 2017

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