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    The Hub

    Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

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    The Internet

    What Would You Do If The Internet Went Away?

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    Nature Writing

    On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

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    Literary History

    When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

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    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: NOON

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 26, 2021
    Islam

    Muslim America is Not a Monolith

    By Asma T. Uddin  March 26, 2021
    Keen On

    On Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the Age of Empires

    By Keen On  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
    Translation

    Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

    By Peter Cole  March 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Danielle Evans, Megan Giddings, and Deesha Philyaw at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 26, 2021
    New Books Network

    How Long Are We Really Going to Distinguish Between Humans, Cyborgs, and AI?

    By New Books Network  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards.

    By Emily Temple  March 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Book workers are declaring their support for Amazon employees’ union drive.

    By Corinne Segal  March 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Carmen Maria Machado has won the Rathbones Folio Prize for In the Dream House.

    By Walker Caplan  March 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2021 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

    By Walker Caplan  March 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Americans and debuts dominate the shortlist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize.

    By Walker Caplan  March 25, 2021
    Travel

    Pandemic Diversions: On the Modern Day Myths and Freaky Folktales of The Siberian Times

    By Farah Abdessamad  March 25, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

    By Amy Brady  March 25, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Jessica Winter on Losing Her Religion

    By The Maris Review  March 25, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Ryo Yamaguchi on Finding—and Making—a Life as a Poet

    By Peter Mishler  March 25, 2021
    Inequality

    How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

    By Dorothy A. Brown  March 25, 2021
    Horror

    Everyday Horrors: Life at the Intersection of Art and Death

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    Climate Crisis

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