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Growing Up As An Untouchable

Growing Up As An Untouchable

Sujatha Gidla and the Story of Lower Caste Family

By Sujatha Gidla | July 18, 2017

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

On the Appearance of a Literary Icon at the First Women's Marches

By Devoney Looser | July 18, 2017

Daniel Handler Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize

Daniel Handler Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize

A New Small Press to Publish Three Chapbooks

By Daniel Handler | July 18, 2017

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

An Adaptation of an Adaptation of the Scottish Play

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Returns, Refugees, and Religious Cults

5 Books Making News This Week: Returns, Refugees, and Religious Cults

Inara Verzemnieks, Lawrence Osborne, Rebecca Stott, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | July 18, 2017

Announcing the Judges for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Awards

Announcing the Judges for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Awards

Also, Nick Offerman and Margaret Atwood, Together At Last

By Literary Hub | July 17, 2017

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Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

By Sarah Sentilles | July 17, 2017

A Night with Virginia Woolf at America's Strangest Literary Hotel

By Claire Luchette | July 14, 2017

Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

By Susan Harlan | July 14, 2017

Do We <em>Need</em> an Adaptation of <em>Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus</em>?

Do We Need an Adaptation of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?

The Week in Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | July 14, 2017

On Marvel's First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

On Marvel's First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

Comic Book Feminism 45 Years Before Wonder Woman

By Anna F. Peppard | July 13, 2017

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

By Laura Dassow Walls | July 12, 2017

Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau's Observations on Animals, Illustrated

Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau's Observations on Animals, Illustrated

On American Toads, "Striped Squirels," and More

By Henry David Thoreau | July 12, 2017

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

On the Philosopher's Obsession with a New England Oak Forest

By Richard Higgins | July 12, 2017

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