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    Thanksgiving

    On the Extravagance of Mark Twain’s Family Dishes

    By Melissa Scholes Young  November 24, 2020
    Magazine Covers

    Bruce McCall: The Story Behind Eight New Yorker Covers

    By Bruce McCall  November 24, 2020
    Christianity

    On the Prosperity Gospel, the Soul of Money, and Proto-Capitalist Jesus

    By Frederick Kaufman  November 24, 2020
    World War II

    The Life of Carla Capponi, Nazi-Fighter of Occupied Rome

    By Victor Failmezger  November 24, 2020
    Philosophy

    How Come We Don’t Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

    By Luigi Amara  November 24, 2020
    Comfort Food

    Doughnuts or Donuts? Krispy Kreme or Dunkin’? All of the Above?

    By Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant  November 24, 2020
    Lit Hub Radio

    Erin Brockovich Wants to Talk About the Water Crisis

    By Keen On  November 24, 2020
    Australian Literature

    Wayne Macauley on
    Gerald Murnane’s Most Memorable Book

    By Wayne Macauley  November 24, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Arctic Fever and the Creation of the Hyper-Masculine Explorer

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 24, 2020
    New Books Network

    How and Why We Cut Ourselves Off from the Natural World

    By New Books Network  November 24, 2020
    The Hub

    Want to own an art book on the Sistine Chapel? That’ll be $22,000—and you can’t return it.

    By Walker Caplan  November 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Ocean Vuong have won the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.

    By Rasheeda Saka  November 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Decades of Alan Rickman’s diaries will be published as a book in 2022.

    By Walker Caplan  November 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as United States Poet Laureate.

    By Walker Caplan  November 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Oxford’s official word of 2020 is . . . well, it’s a lot of words.

    By Emily Temple  November 23, 2020
    Literary History

    When Adrienne Rich Refused The National Book Award

    By Hilary Holladay  November 23, 2020
    Letters

    A Young V.S. Naipaul Writes to His Dad About Wanting to Fit in at School

    By V.S. Naipaul  November 23, 2020
    Music history

    Like Jazz, Bowling, and Old Hollywood Hairdos?
    Thank Insects.

    By Edward D. Melillo  November 23, 2020
    Keen On

    This Isn’t an Election Crisis—It’s a Crisis of Trump

    By Keen On  November 23, 2020
    Dance

    Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

    By Ntozake Shange  November 23, 2020
    Diaries

    Writing and Parenting in the Pandemic Blur of
    Day to Day Life

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  November 23, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    CMarie Fuhrman: On Encountering a Trapped Coyote

    By Emergence Magazine  November 23, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Nov. 23rd to Nov. 29th

    By Kiki Nicole  November 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Madness of Majesty of America’s Last King

    By New Books Network  November 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Poets House’s former employees claim that it temporarily closed over their intent to unionize.

    By Corinne Segal  November 20, 2020
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