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    Labor

    How Walmart’s Business Model Encourages Gender Discrimination

    By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit  May 23, 2024
    What to Watch

    An Action Rom-Com? Yes, Hit Man is a Surefire Delight

    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 23, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today:
    Kevin Barry’s “Finistère”

    By Drew Broussard  May 22, 2024
    The Hub

    The Grub Street Diets of your favorite fictional characters.

    By Brittany Allen  May 22, 2024
    The Hub

    See the cover for Sally Rooney’s next novel.

    By Emily Temple  May 22, 2024
    Contemporary Art

    What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art

    By Zachary Small  May 22, 2024
    Humor

    The Worst Town Names in America—And Other Useless Maps

    By HarperCollins   May 22, 2024
    Family History

    Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

    By Bobi Conn  May 22, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Ersin Han Ersin on Making the Invisible Visible

    By Emergence Magazine  May 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos has won the 2024 International Booker Prize.

    By Drew Broussard  May 21, 2024
    The Hub

    Over 100 Kundiman fellows have called for the board’s resignation.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 21, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Raymond Carver’s “Popular Mechanics”

    By McKayla Coyle  May 21, 2024
    The Hub

    Read a poem written by America’s best young poets.

    By Literary Hub  May 21, 2024
    Fame

    Oprah’s Book Club and… Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous

    By Cass R. Sunstein  May 21, 2024
    American History

    A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South

    By Alan Taylor  May 21, 2024
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

    By Mesha Maren  May 21, 2024
    Rereadings

    Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

    By Jessie Gaynor  May 21, 2024
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today:
    Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”

    By Emily Temple  May 20, 2024
    Writing About Disability

    What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

    By Emily C. Bloom  May 20, 2024
    What to Watch

    In Praise of Long Conversations in Film

    By Sean Minogue  May 20, 2024
    Art and Life

    Art Meets Life: Beth Parker on Searching for Red Grooms’ Mysterious Sculpted Bookstore

    By Beth Parker  May 20, 2024
    Naming

    The Poetry of Chinese Names

    By Wendy Chen  May 20, 2024
    Film

    Pulitzer Prize-Winner Ilyon Woo on Craft Lessons From the Late Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson

    By Ilyon Woo  May 20, 2024
    Objects

    Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

    By Nancy Miller Gomez  May 20, 2024
    The Hub

    Can you manage to read at the beach? A summertime choose your own adventure.

    By James Folta  May 17, 2024
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