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    Art

    Check out these messy, startling portraits of some of your favorite dead authors.

    By Aaron Robertson  May 20, 2020
    Joining Conversation

    Joining Conversation:
    Writer Katya Cengel Leads a Roundtable on Chernobyl

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the £10,000 Caine Prize.

    By Katie Yee  May 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Never forget that Sarah Bernhardt cast herself as Hamlet (at the theater she named for herself).

    By Jessie Gaynor  May 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: Te-Ping Chen’s Land of Big Numbers.

    By Emily Temple  May 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

    By Michael Robinson  May 20, 2020
    Fascism

    Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

    By Edmund White  May 20, 2020
    Animals

    The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

    By Robert Hough  May 20, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Death of a Radical Rewilder

    By Joanna Pocock  May 20, 2020
    On Race

    The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

    By Lawrence Goldstone  May 20, 2020
    Homelessness

    Mekkiayah Jacobs: New York City Needs to Care For Its Homeless

    By Mekkiayah Jacobs  May 20, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Laura Van Den Berg, Melissa Febos, Tracy O’Neill

    By The Antibody Reading Series  May 19, 2020
    Transnational Literature Series

    Fernanda Melchor in Conversation with Nina MacLaughlin

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 19, 2020
    Rekindled

    Rekindled: Emily Neuberger in Conversation with Garrard Conley

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 19, 2020
    Anniversaries

    One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

    By Aaron Robertson  May 19, 2020
    The Hub

    Confirmed: Audiobooks are the brightest place in publishing right now.

    By Corinne Segal  May 19, 2020
    The Hub

    56 years ago, a dying Lorraine Hansberry coined the phrase “young, gifted and black.”

    By Dan Sheehan  May 19, 2020
    The Hub

    The Magnetic Fields have a new album and it’s inspired by the microfictions of Lydia Davis?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2020
    Literary History

    On the horribly awkward night James Joyce met Marcel Proust. (I still crave literary parties.)

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2020
    The Hub

    The NYPL has announced the 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists.

    By Katie Yee  May 19, 2020
    Biography

    Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

    By Benjamin Taylor  May 19, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How We Dream During
    a Pandemic

    By S. D. Chrostowska  May 19, 2020
    Lit Mags

    How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

    By MM Carrigan  May 19, 2020
    Poets

    Defiant and Unsinkable:
    The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By Olivia Gatwood  May 19, 2020
    Jazz

    The Enduring Impact of Jazz on American Film

    By Literary Hub  May 19, 2020
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