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How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

“It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

By Literary Hub | April 17, 2024

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

From Eddie Ahn’s Graphic Memoir “Advocate”

By Eddie Ahn | April 17, 2024

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

“Writing can reassure and writing can upset, writing can disrupt.”

By SJ Kim | April 17, 2024

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

By Gabriel Brownstein | April 17, 2024

Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

Christine Ma-Kellams on What She’s Learned From the Small Screen

By Christine Ma-Kellams | April 17, 2024

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A new Ocean Vuong novel is coming next summer.

By James Folta | April 16, 2024

What is the point of the author interview?

By Brittany Allen | April 16, 2024

What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 16, 2024

Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

Lisa Kaltenegger Considers Carl Sagan, Alien Equations, and How Sci-Fi Can Help Us Imagine Extraterrestrial Life

By Lisa Kaltenegger | April 16, 2024

The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s <em>Slaves of New York</em> and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

Elwin Cotman on His Frustration and Enchantment with a True 1980s Classic

By Elwin Cotman | April 16, 2024

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

By Michael Korda | April 16, 2024

Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

The Author of “Good Grief” on the Bittersweet Experience of Writing Her Poetry Collection

By Brianna Pastor | April 16, 2024

Here are the 2024 finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize.

Here are the 2024 finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize.

By Literary Hub | April 15, 2024

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

By Ben Ehrenreich | April 15, 2024

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

By Alissa Quart | April 15, 2024

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