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How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz Recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan, and More

By Madeleine Schwartz | June 15, 2026

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Darcey Steinke on Chronic Pain, Loneliness, and the Truth of Woolf’s Work

By Darcey Steinke | June 15, 2026

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

Dominic Erdozain on the Contradictions at the Heart of Thomas Jefferson’s United States

By Dominic Erdozain | June 15, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

(Shortly Before Being Exiled from the City for Life)

By Literary Hub | June 15, 2026

A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

“I kept looking for the flaws, the pieces that I had predetermined were broken and realized that I had never actually seen myself.”

By Phill Branch | June 15, 2026

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

Krys Malcolm Belc Considers Cooking For Comfort in Childhood and Adulthood

By Krys Malcolm Belc | June 15, 2026

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Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

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Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

By David S. Reynolds | June 12, 2026

A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Explores the Apparent Contradiction

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | June 12, 2026

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

Jared Marcel Pollen Considers the Roll of the Honeybee in Classical Literature

By Jared Marcel Pollen | June 12, 2026

Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

Poets and Translators Pair Eight Recent Korean Poetry Collections in Translation with Korean Music

By Yoo Heekyung and Stine An | June 12, 2026

Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Jacqueline St. Joan on Language and Life on the Bench

By Jacqueline St. Joan | June 12, 2026

Here are the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.

Here are the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.

By Literary Hub | June 11, 2026

Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?

Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?

Ryan Huling on New Innovations in Cartography That Allow Us to Appreciate the Natural World

By Ryan Huling | June 11, 2026

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster

By Andrea Wulf | June 11, 2026

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