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    The Craft of Writing

    Charles Baxter on Delighting in Small Details

    By Charles Baxter  July 29, 2022
    Micro

    “Poetry is a Form of Love.” Austin Davis on Bridging Art and Activism with AZ Hugs for the Houseless

    By Micro   July 29, 2022
    Immigration

    Luz Aguirre on Living Inside the Panopticon as an Undocumented American

    By Luz Aguirre  July 29, 2022
    Keen On

    What the Sikh Religion Can Teach Us About Disrupting Bias, Building Empathy, and Seeking Wisdom

    By Keen On  July 29, 2022
    Keen On

    How Seriously Should We Take the Paranoia Amongst Our Educated Elite About the Crisis of America?

    By Keen On  July 29, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez and Introduction by Rebecca Solnit, Read by James Naughton

    By Behind the Mic   July 29, 2022
    The Hub

    Check out the trailer for Joyce Carol Oates/Ana de Armas collab Blonde.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2022
    The Hub

    These 24 debuts just made the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize longlist.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2022
    The Hub

    The New York Times has found its next Books editor.

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Oh great. NFT eBooks of the Gutenberg Bible sold for $100,000 in a single day.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the first Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize.

    By Corinne Segal  July 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Literary-themed cruises with famous writers are apparently a thing now.

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking: Samantha Hunt on the Visual Inspirations Behind Her First Work of Nonfiction

    By Samantha Hunt  July 28, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    From A Hard Day’s Night to This Is Spinal Tap: The Big Tent of Rock and Roll on Film

    By Fred Goodman  July 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The New Homeless: Emi Nietfeld on the Growing Number of Unhoused Americans

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 28, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2022
    What to Watch

    The Most Impossible Art: Anime, Literature, and the New Aesthetic Imagination

    By Lio Min  July 28, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Chris Belcher and Chloe Cooper-Jones Discuss Desire, Class, and Power

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 28, 2022
    Indigenous Lit

    Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

    By Oscar Hokeah  July 28, 2022
    Political Science

    Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

    By Eve Fairbanks  July 28, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st-Century “American”

    By Keen On  July 28, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Metaverse Will Revolutionize Everything and Why That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing

    By Keen On  July 28, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

    By Just the Right Book   July 28, 2022
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