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    Storytelling

    A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

    By David Weill, MD  May 20, 2021
    Revolutions

    A Revolutionary Reading List from PEN America’s World Voices Festival

    By Literary Hub  May 20, 2021
    Poets

    Contemplating the Devotions of W.S. Merwin in the Wilds of North Jersey

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 20, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    Literary Adaptations

    How Does a Book Get Adapted for TV or Film?

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  May 20, 2021
    Open Form

    R.O. Kwon on the Joy of Seeing a New Kind of Korean Childhood in Minari

    By Open Form  May 20, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Can We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?

    By Just the Right Book   May 20, 2021
    War

    The Arsenal of Imperialism: How Arbitrary Borders Make Unequal People

    By Suchitra Vijayan  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 20, 2021
    American History

    The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

    By Emily Midorikawa  May 20, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Katja Hoyer on Hitler’s Campaign for Office

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses has split its prize money among the longlist.

    By Walker Caplan  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Roald Dahl’s secrets for writing children’s literature are officially up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    The Yale Review has launched TYR, an online magazine.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    These are the best university press book designs of 2020.

    By Emily Temple  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    This random list of things Lorraine Hansberry liked and disliked is delightful.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    John Cleese has no idea how many bookstores there are in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Mary South’s nursing home phone-sex short story is getting the Hollywood treatment.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    A new John le Carré novel is coming this fall.

    By Emily Temple  May 19, 2021
    Literary History

    The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

    By James Grady  May 19, 2021
    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    Dating

    Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

    By Nancy Jo Sales  May 19, 2021
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