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    American History

    “A Solemn Battle between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition

    By Timothy Shenk  October 24, 2022
    Cartography

    A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

    By Anna Badkhen  October 24, 2022
    Musicology

    On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo

    By Kristina R. Gaddy  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    On Grief

    The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

    By Monica Macansantos  October 24, 2022
    Storytelling

    Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

    By Harold R. Johnson  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien’s Hobbit For the Left

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    What Boeing’s 737 Max Tragedy Reveals About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Wait, Colleen Hoover’s new book sold how many copies by the end of its release day?

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 21, 2022
    The Hub

    George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London is coming straight to your inbox.

    By Corinne Segal  October 21, 2022
    The Hub

    See the gorgeous 18th century tarot deck used by the first professional tarot reader.

    By Emily Temple  October 21, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene.

    By Literary Hub  October 21, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

    By Mary Karr  October 21, 2022
    American History

    Locating the Battle For America’s Past, Present, and Future at Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral

    By Jeremi Suri  October 21, 2022
    Beyond the Page

    Being American in the World We’ve Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  October 21, 2022
    Appalachia

    On Disrupting a Cherished Musical Tradition and Creating New Appalachian Ballads

    By Elizabeth Ford  October 21, 2022
    Film and TV

    Decision to Leave is a Stirring Hitchcockian Neo-Noir

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 21, 2022
    Keen On

    How General Motors CEO Mary Barra is the Anti Elon Musk

    By Keen On  October 21, 2022
    Queer Identity

    The Me in the Screen: Steffan Triplett on Doppelgängers and Doubles, in Horror and Queer Life

    By Steffan Triplett  October 21, 2022
    Horror

    Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Ten Years Later

    By Elizabeth Horkley  October 21, 2022
    The Literary Life

    David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

    By The Literary Life  October 21, 2022
    Counterculture

    “I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

    By Steven Heller  October 21, 2022
    Journalism

    Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism

    By Margaret Sullivan  October 21, 2022
    Magic?

    Playing with Fear: How Oracle Cards Taught Me To Ask More Honest Questions

    By Rita Zoey Chin  October 21, 2022
    Keen On

    The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans’ in World War II

    By Keen On  October 21, 2022
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