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    Underreported

    The first US Book Prize judged entirely by incarcerated people has announced a winner.

    By Brittany Allen  August 2, 2024
    Palestine

    James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

    By Alexander Durie  August 2, 2024
    Twitterverse

    10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

    By Brittany Allen  August 2, 2024
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

    By Natalia Olbinski  August 2, 2024
    American Icons

    A Century of James Baldwin

    By Literary Hub  August 2, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

    By Tom Jenks  August 2, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

    By James Folta  August 1, 2024
    The Hub

    The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize has announced its 2024 longlist.

    By Brittany Allen  August 1, 2024
    Film and TV

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

    By Emily Temple  August 1, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Falling in Love With Life

    By Talk Easy  August 1, 2024
    Tennis

    On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

    By Keith Gandal  July 31, 2024
    Literary History

    Returning to the Scene: What’s Left of Café Loup, Legendary NYC Literary Haunt?

    By Erin Edmison  July 31, 2024
    Book Covers

    The 17 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

    By Soma Mei Sheng Frazier  July 31, 2024
    The Hub

    The 2024 Booker Prize longlist is here.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2024
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

    By Clara Bingham  July 30, 2024
    Queer History

    The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

    By Daisy Dunn  July 30, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    From Senegal to the Virgin Islands: The Weirdness of Having Fun While Writing About Historical Trauma

    By Mai Sennaar  July 30, 2024
    The Hub

    Where are they now? Catching up with your favorite children’s book protagonists.

    By Brittany Allen  July 29, 2024
    Sports

    Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 29, 2024
    On Reading

    On Lying About Reading, or: How I Learned That Stieg Larsson Is Good, Actually

    By Sara Martin  July 29, 2024
    Climate Change

    Dangerous Solastalgia: On Writing in the Midst of Climate Grief

    By Ashley Shelby  July 29, 2024
    Energy

    Atomic Fallacy: Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

    By M.V. Ramana  July 29, 2024
    Literary Colonialism

    The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

    By Ainehi Edoro-Glines  July 26, 2024
    Journalism

    Lost and Found: Why I Almost Quit Journalism (and What Brought Me Back)

    By Lauren Markham  July 26, 2024
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