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    Keen On

    Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Wehner on Vengeance, Forbearance, and Healing in Trump’s America

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Monica C. Parker on the Extraordinary Emotion That can Change the Way We Live: Wonder

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    What to Watch

    Lucky Hank is an Exhausted Academic Satire

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 17, 2023
    Animals

    On the Ethics of Preserving—and Cutting Short—the Life of a Pet

    By Karen Fine  March 17, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kate DiCamillo on Seeing Her Book, The Magician’s Elephant, Adapted for Film

    By Kate DiCamillo  March 17, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 17, 2023
    Trauma

    What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

    By Judith L. Herman  March 17, 2023
    Life in a Pandemic

    Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

    By Murong Xuecun  March 17, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Readings and Conversation with the NBF 2022 5 Under 35 Honorees

    By The Literary Life  March 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Neil Gross on Three Police Chiefs Who Defied the Odds and Changed American Cop Culture

    By Keen On  March 17, 2023
    The Hub

    The winner of The Story Prize in 2023 is Ling Ma for Bliss Montage.

    By Janet Manley  March 16, 2023
    The Hub

    ‘Nudity and misery’: Reviews of A Little Life on stage are in.

    By Janet Manley  March 16, 2023
    Sex

    Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?

    By Ellie Broughton  March 16, 2023
    Forensics

    In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

    By Alexa Hagerty  March 16, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 16, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

    By Natalie Jenner and Jennifer Rosner  March 16, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

    By Just the Right Book   March 16, 2023
    Grief

    Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

    By Patrick Bringley  March 16, 2023
    Environmentalism

    Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

    By Daisy Hildyard  March 16, 2023
    Homecooking

    Why Authenticity Doesn’t Exist When It Comes To Food

    By Ronnie Woo  March 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Christopher Hobson on How Everything Everywhere—the US, the UK, Iraq, South Africa—is Broken

    By Keen On  March 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Kristen Loesch on Fictionalizing and Feminizing the History of 20th-Century Russia

    By Keen On  March 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Turns out that America’s most “recession-proof” business is . . . bookstores.

    By Emily Temple  March 15, 2023
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