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    In Memoriam

    Remembering Stephen Dixon: Writer, Teacher, Friend

    By Kristopher Jansma  November 7, 2019
    The Hub

    Mariana Enríquez wins the Herralde Prize for a work of Gothic political horror.

    By Aaron Robertson  November 7, 2019
    Climate Change

    How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

    By Literary Hub  November 7, 2019
    Film

    Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

    By David L. Ulin  November 7, 2019
    Film

    Andy Serkis’s Gollum Was the Best Thing About The Lord of the Rings

    By Michael Newton  November 7, 2019
    Animals

    Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection

    By Richard Louv  November 7, 2019
    Elections

    Inside the Republican Party’s Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

    By Anne Nelson  November 7, 2019
    Criticism

    On the Radically Compassionate Films of Ai Weiwei and Agnès Varda

    By Curtis White  November 7, 2019
    Mental Illness

    The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

    By Susannah Cahalan  November 7, 2019
    Literary History

    Mariana Enriquez on the Radical, Subversive Power of Silvina Ocampo

    By Mariana Enriquez  November 6, 2019
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 6, 2019
    American Nationalism

    Trump Nation: Dress Rehearsal
    for a Civil War

    By Larry Siems  November 6, 2019
    Architecture

    On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

    By Paul Hendrickson  November 6, 2019
    Activism

    What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

    By Franny Nudelman  November 6, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

    By Mo Rocca  November 6, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Surreal Absurdity of Preparing for a Mother’s Death

    By Tiffany Midge  November 6, 2019
    Family

    When a Family Measures Time By Its Losses

    By Marco Rafalà  November 6, 2019
    Food

    What Was It Like to Bake the Royal Wedding Cake?

    By Bethanne Patrick  November 6, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
    The Hub

    Literary Earthquakes: Tori Amos is publishing a memoir

    By Dan Sheehan  November 5, 2019
    The Hub

    Florida men deny smalltown library access to the New York Times online, citing “fake news.”

    By Jonny Diamond  November 5, 2019
    Dictators

    Report From Foul Territory: Donald Trump Can’t Even Do Baseball Cliches Right

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2019
    5 Questions

    Bernardine Evaristo on the Illusion of Writer’s Block

    By Literary Hub  November 5, 2019
    Ideologues

    From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio

    By Brian Rosenwald  November 5, 2019
    European History

    The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

    By Brendan Simms  November 5, 2019
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