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    Libraries

    How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

    By Alana Mohamed  March 4, 2020
    Illustrations

    Illustrating the Domestic Bliss of Alice B. Toklas and
    Gertrude Stein

    By Maira Kalman  March 4, 2020
    Hoop Dreams

    In the Big Arena, Searching for the Heart of College Basketball

    By John Feinstein  March 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Dear Oxford English Dictionary: “bitch” is not a synonym for “woman.”

    By Corinne Segal  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

    By Katie Yee  March 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    AWP may still technically be on, but writers and publishers are bailing fast.

    By Emily Temple  March 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Here’s a list of international literary events canceled over coronavirus concerns.

    By Corinne Segal  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    The best literary TV adaptation you aren’t watching is coming to an end. 

    By Emily Temple  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Small presses win big at this year’s PEN America Literary Awards.

    By Katie Yee  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    North Korean writers ordered to produce 70 works of literature about Kim Jong Un’s greatness.

    By Jessie Gaynor  March 3, 2020
    Life Under Late Capitalism

    Hilary Leichter on the Derangements of Late Capitalism

    By Kristin Iversen  March 3, 2020
    Style

    Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

    By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
    Memoir

    Robert Stone: I Would Have Given You the Meaning of Life If I Could

    By Robert Stone  March 3, 2020
    2020 Election

    How Celebrities Can Leverage Their Influence for Good in 2020

    By David Plouffe  March 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    In Memory of Krishna Baldev Vaid, Pioneer of Modern Hindi Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    Here is the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    AWP conference still on, despite state of disaster in San Antonio due to coronavirus.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Ronan Farrow and Woody Allen now share a publisher.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    A new site for headline-inspired fiction launches today with stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Colum McCann, and more.

    By Corinne Segal  March 2, 2020
    The Internet

    From Anon to Alt-Right:
    The Dangerous Tricksters of 4chan

    By Joanne McNeil  March 2, 2020
    Travel

    On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel

    By Intan Paramaditha  March 2, 2020
    War

    Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

    By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
    Religion

    On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism

    By Nick Ripatrazone  March 2, 2020
    What to Read

    10 Books You Should Read
    in March

    By Literary Hub  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Ireland has a secret tree carved with famous literary autographs.

    By Dan Sheehan  February 28, 2020
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