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    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

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2022
    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

    When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

    By M Dressler  December 12, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    James Bridle Considers the Possibilities of Ecological AI

    By Emergence Magazine  December 12, 2022
    Music Writing

    How CokeMachineGlow.com Defined a Decade of Music Writing

    By Clayton Purdom  December 12, 2022
    Keen On

    Why America Needs a “Sputnik Moment” To Reform Its Radically Inegalitarian Healthcare System

    By Keen On  December 12, 2022
    Keen On

    Are We on the Brink of an AI Age in Which Talking With Machines Will Be Considered Both Normal and Essential?

    By Keen On  December 12, 2022
    Keen On

    The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

    By Keen On  December 12, 2022
    The Hub

    Markus Dohle is resigning from Penguin Random House.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 9, 2022
    American Literature

    What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow

    By Literary Hub  December 9, 2022
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