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    Trauma

    Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

    By KB Brookins  May 29, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello on Comedy Partnership

    By Talk Easy  May 29, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read after watching I Saw the TV Glow.

    By Drew Broussard  May 28, 2024
    Underreported

    A protest newspaper is gaining traction. But what’s next for The New York War Crimes?

    By Brittany Allen  May 28, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Juan Rulfo’s “They Have Given Us The Land”

    By James Folta  May 28, 2024
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Paul Auster

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2024
    Publishing

    When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

    By Sara B. Franklin  May 28, 2024
    Creativity

    Art as Inspiration: How Collage Can Help Create Compelling Characters

    By Emma Copley Eisenberg  May 28, 2024
    Theater History

    How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

    By James Shapiro  May 28, 2024
    On Translation

    The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

    By Mark Harman  May 28, 2024
    Mothers and Daughters

    Beauty and Terror: On Understanding and Accepting a Schizophrenic Mother

    By Nina St. Pierre  May 28, 2024
    The Hub

    Publishers are already using way too much AI.

    By James Folta  May 24, 2024
    The Hub

    Hay Festival drops Baillie Gifford sponsorship over Israel & fossil fuel links.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 24, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today:
    Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”

    By Dan Sheehan  May 24, 2024
    The Hub

    The most stressful weddings found in fiction.

    By Brittany Allen  May 24, 2024
    Ukraine

    The View From Kyiv: How Ukraine Confronted the Looming Threat of War

    By Illia Ponomarenko  May 24, 2024
    Memoir

    Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

    By Lilly Dancyger  May 24, 2024
    Jazz

    In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

    By Ed Simon  May 24, 2024
    Crowdfunding

    What the Toxic Morality of Crowdfunded Healthcare Says About American Society

    By Nora Kenworthy  May 24, 2024
    Harlem Renaissance

    Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

    By Anthony B. Pinn  May 24, 2024
    Manifestoes

    Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

    By John Swanson Jacobs  May 24, 2024
    The Hub

    Libraries rule, cops drool: Today’s the birthday of both NYC’s libraries and police.

    By James Folta  May 23, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

    By Emily Temple  May 23, 2024
    The Hub

    Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid has won the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.

    By Emily Temple  May 23, 2024
    Mathematics

    Rolling the Dice: What Gambling Can Teach Us About Probability

    By Tom Chivers  May 23, 2024
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