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The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

Jane Alison on Fictionalizing the Tumultuous and Toxic Relationship Between Architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier

By Jane Alison | August 6, 2024

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

By Ellen Ruppel Shell | August 5, 2024

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Rob Jackson Suggests Ways Businesses, Scientists and Governments Can Work Together to Clean the Atmosphere

By Rob Jackson | August 5, 2024

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

Jessica Powers and Kenechi Uzor on What Diversity Means, Defining African Literature, and Taking Risks as Publishers

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

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James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

By Alexander Durie | August 2, 2024

10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

By Brittany Allen | August 2, 2024

True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

Natalia Olbinski on Creating the Cover for Ruby Todd’s “Bright Objects”

By Natalia Olbinski | August 2, 2024

A Century of James Baldwin

A Century of James Baldwin

Celebrating 100 Years of a Great American Mind

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2024

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction

By Tom Jenks | August 2, 2024

What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

By James Folta | August 1, 2024

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize has announced its 2024 longlist.

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize has announced its 2024 longlist.

By Brittany Allen | August 1, 2024

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

Netflix and Air Conditioning

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2024

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