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    Keen On

    Finally Revealed… Why Some of Us Go to Heaven and Why Some of Us End Up in Hell

    By Keen On  December 15, 2022
    The Hub

    This year’s very worst opening sentence is about salami and lingerie.

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2022
    The Hub

    Announcing the winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2022
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    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2022
    Christmas

    The Wild, Wonderful, and Poetic World of Ralphie Parker

    By Matt Mitchell  December 14, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

    By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  December 14, 2022
    Space Travel

    How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon… Or Not

    By Iwan Rhys Morus  December 14, 2022
    Cities

    The Lingering Weight of Race and Policing in One Cincinnati Neighborhood

    By Nick Swartsell  December 14, 2022
    Music Writing

    “The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

    By Marc Myers  December 14, 2022
    The Hub

    Internet man uses AI to create a children’s book in praise of AI and it is fatuous and ugly.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 13, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022

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    Terrorism

    Anatomy of a Kidnapping: An Inside Look at the First Few Days in Terrorist Captivity

    By Shahbaz Taseer  December 13, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2022
    Travel

    Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

    By Paul Clements  December 13, 2022
    Pregnancy

    The Optimistic, Expansive Visions of Pregnancy and Motherhood in the 1962 Novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman

    By Jenni Quilter  December 13, 2022
    Hong Kong

    An Indelible City, Indelibly Marked: On Hong Kong’s History of Resistance

    By Jerrine Tan  December 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  December 13, 2022
    Write-minded

    Aya de León Introduces a New Imprint for Climate Fiction: Fighting Chance Books

    By Write-minded   December 13, 2022
    Memoir

    Between Shame, Desire, and Destiny: On the Genius of Annie Ernaux

    By Ken Chen  December 12, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

    By Pitchaya Sudbanthad  December 12, 2022
    Crime

    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

    By Beverly Gage  December 12, 2022
    What to Watch

    The Kindred Adaptation Reclaims Octavia Butler’s “Grim Fantasy” for a New Era

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 12, 2022
    Book Tours

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    Emergence Magazine

    James Bridle Considers the Possibilities of Ecological AI

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