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    French literature

    Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

    By Cora Womble-Miesner  March 18, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

    By Paul Lynch  March 18, 2021
    Conservation

    How the Salvation of New York City Drinking Water Can Be a Model for Saving the Planet

    By Michael Heller and James Salzman  March 18, 2021
    New York City

    How the Early Internet Helped with the “Rebirth” of New York City

    By Thomas Dyja  March 18, 2021
    Travel

    On the Undeniable Lure of the Historic Literary Home

    By Elizabeth Brooks  March 18, 2021
    Post-Colonialism

    How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s

    By Raphael Cormack  March 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Wendy Lower on the Political Power of Photography

    By Keen On  March 18, 2021
    Change Lab

    Dan Brodnitz on Democratizing Education at LinkedIn Learning

    By Change Lab  March 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are 10 great Irish novels not set in Ireland.

    By Book Marks  March 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are AAPI-led organizations where you can donate today.

    By Literary Hub  March 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Ibram X. Kendi is resurrecting the country’s first abolitionist newspaper for 2021.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 17, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

    By Kelly McMasters  March 17, 2021
    Small Presses

    At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

    By Mark Haber  March 17, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By Vivian Gornick  March 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

    By Lisa Cron  March 17, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    Ozzy, Mötley, Poison… On the Sacred Role of the Hair Metal Ballad

    By Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock  March 17, 2021
    Dictators

    Trump Television: Life in the Daytime Talk Show Presidency

    By Nick Bryant  March 17, 2021
    Grief

    How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death

    By Laura Imai Messina  March 17, 2021
    Keen On

    How a Twitter Hashtag Changed the Rules of War

    By Keen On  March 17, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

    By Robert Alter  March 17, 2021
    Otherppl

    Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

    By Carlin Romano  March 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Tom Hiddleston, the dark prince of literary adaptations, is back on his bullshit.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 16, 2021
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