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    Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 1, 2022
    Keen On

    J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America

    By Keen On  March 1, 2022
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    John Scalzi on Writing a Sci-Fi Novel Based in a Post-Covid World

    By Keen On  March 1, 2022
    Hollywood

    Harvey Fierstein on the Best Late Night Hosts He Ever Worked With

    By Harvey Fierstein  March 1, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Dana Stevens on Writing a “Zigzagging Biography” of Buster Keaton

    By So Many Damn Books  March 1, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  March 1, 2022
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    Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

    By Keen On  March 1, 2022
    The Hub

    Melville House celebrates 20 years of speaking out.

    By Katie Yee  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Just a reminder that Haruki Murakami’s Drive My Car is coming to streaming in March.

    By Walker Caplan  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    PEN America is hosting an NYC vigil tonight in support of Ukrainian artists and writers.

    By Corinne Segal  February 28, 2022
    Ukraine

    Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

    By Ilya Kaminsky  February 28, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of February

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 28, 2022
    Film History

    Is Adaptation a Feminine Act? On the Women Writers Who Worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    By Annie Berke  February 28, 2022
    Mothers and Daughters

    Writing a Memoir Taught Me How to See My Mother

    By Sherry Turkle  February 28, 2022
    Hip Hop

    On Rap’s Linguistic Twists and Turns

    By Daniel Levin Becker  February 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Alan Judd on One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries of the Elizabethan Age

    By Keen On  February 28, 2022
    Audiobooks

    5 Audiobooks That Will Help You Get Your Hollywood Award Season Fix

    By James Tate Hill  February 28, 2022
    First Draft

    How the “Tiger Lady” Profoundly Changed Susan Orlean

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 28, 2022
    Animals

    Worlds Unseen and Unimagined: On Learning About Human Senses Through the Animal Kingdom

    By Jackie Higgins  February 28, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    AudioFile’s Best
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    By Book Marks  February 28, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives

    By Emergence Magazine  February 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Can the Economics of Sanctions Be an Effective Way of Fighting Back Against the Military Invasion of Ukraine?

    By Keen On  February 28, 2022
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    Akash Kapur on Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

    By Keen On  February 28, 2022
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    Scott Reynolds Nelson on How Cheap American Grain Toppled the World’s Largest Empires

    By Keen On  February 28, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Ten Sentences That Defined a Nation: On the Gettysburg Address

    By History of Literature  February 28, 2022
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