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    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    Essays

    Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

    By Clarice Lispector  September 27, 2019
    Keen On

    Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

    By Keen On  September 27, 2019
    The Hub

    A new guide from PEN America provides some answers on campus “free speech” controversies.

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    The Hub

    Here are the seven shortlisted debut novels for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2019
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    Oh yes, Fleabag’s Hot Priest is your new Tom Ripley.

    By Emily Temple  September 26, 2019
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    David Mitchell just announced his first novel in five years.

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    Nature

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Time

    John Berger: Some Brief Musings on Time

    By John Berger  September 26, 2019
    Pop Music

    So You Think You’re Cool? On Referencing Pop Music in Fiction

    By Robert Haller  September 26, 2019
    American Spies

    The Day I Found Out My Father Was a Spy

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    Catholicism

    How a Saint Gets Made

    By Sonja Livingston  September 26, 2019
    Spirituality

    On Gandhi and Nonviolence as a Spiritual Virtue

    By Tridip Suhrud  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Etymologies

    How the Word ‘Ghetto’ Traveled from Europe to America

    By Daniel B. Schwartz  September 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Area man attempts to sell self-published book to 50 bookstores in 50 days, learns lesson along the way.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 25, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the seven writers who just won MacArthur “genius” grants.

    By Emily Temple  September 25, 2019
    Young Adult

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    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
    Icons

    Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” Spoke to My Working-Class Dublin

    By Dermot Bolger  September 25, 2019
    Animals

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    By Rebecca Renner  September 25, 2019
    Translation

    Elif Shafak on the Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz

    By Elif Shafak  September 25, 2019
    Acting

    Why You Shouldn’t Cross Meryl Streep on a Film Set

    By Erin Carlson  September 25, 2019
    Musicology

    On the Difficulty of Explaining Why a Piece of Music is Good

    By John Mauceri  September 25, 2019
    Mental health

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    By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen  September 25, 2019
    Economics

    Friedrich Hayek: Not Exactly the Libertarian Darling He’s Claimed As

    By James Bernard Murphy  September 25, 2019
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