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    Vietnam

    “America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

    By Nguyễn Bình  October 23, 2024
    American Politics

    What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

    By Bill Adair  October 23, 2024
    In Memoriam

    Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

    By Vanessa Braganza  October 23, 2024
    The Royal Family

    How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

    By Tom Parker Bowles  October 23, 2024
    Psychedelics

    Anatomy of a Bad Trip: On the Less-Than-Magical Side of Magic Mushrooms

    By Eugenia Bone  October 23, 2024
    Blindness

    Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness’ Many Forms

    By Naomi Cohn  October 23, 2024
    On Poetry

    Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

    By Molly McCully Brown  October 23, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Jason Reynolds on Subverting Masculinity

    By Talk Easy  October 23, 2024
    The Hub

    Watch the first trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Interior Chinatown.

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s the winner of the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

    By Literary Hub  October 22, 2024
    The Hub

    On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    Displacement

    André Aciman on Displacement, Family and the Struggle to Find Home In the Eternal City

    By André Aciman  October 22, 2024
    Disability

    The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

    By Liz Jackson  October 22, 2024
    American West

    How a Hidden Corner of the American West Became a Refuge For Outlaws

    By Tom Clavin  October 22, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

    By Elif Shafak  October 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s the winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

    By Literary Hub  October 21, 2024
    Gaza

    Somaia Abu Nada Remembers Her Slain Sister, Heba Abu Nada, Palestinian Poet and Novelist

    By Somaia Abunada  October 21, 2024
    Recipes

    Heavenly Paella: Exploring a Unique Monastic Culinary Culture in the Mountains of Catalonia

    By Jody Eddy  October 21, 2024
    Exploration

    Himilco, Hanno, Faxian… And Other Early World Explorers Who Should Be More Famous

    By Matthew Lockwood  October 21, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

    By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 21, 2024
    Coming of Age

    James Ivory Tells His 1940s Queer Coming-of-Age Story

    By James Ivory  October 21, 2024
    Comics

    Music, Image, and Language: Christopher Forgues Shares the Elements of His Creative Process

    By Rob Goyanes  October 21, 2024
    Food Writing

    The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

    By Aditi Machado  October 21, 2024
    The Hub

    Bob the Drag Queen has written the world’s first Harriet Tubman hip-hop novel.

    By Brittany Allen  October 18, 2024
    The Hub

    Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement.

    By Literary Hub  October 18, 2024
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