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    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
    The Hub

    This year’s PEN World Voices Festival lineup includes Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, and more.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Three new Ojibwe-language books will tell the stories of tribal elders in their own words.

    By Corinne Segal  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Remember the time NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch put Klan hoods on Thomas the Train and friends?

    By Jonny Diamond  February 28, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 16 Best Book Covers of February

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Queer Identity

    The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

    By Zee Francis  February 28, 2020
    History

    When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

    By Matt Kapp  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Elisa Gabbert, author of The Word Pretty, is the new Times poetry columnist.

    By Julia Hass  February 27, 2020
    Conspiracies

    Wild conspiracy theory books about the coronavirus are proliferating on Amazon.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 27, 2020
    Scandals

    Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is going to prison for a children’s book scandal.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson is trying to get Thomas Pynchon to endorse Bernie.

    By Emily Temple  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Edwidge Danticat is the first two-time winner of the $20,000 Story Prize.

    By Katie Yee  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but please stop going into bookstores and kicking the books.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Here is the 2020 International Booker Prize longlist (with good news for indie presses).

    By Corinne Segal  February 27, 2020
    TV

    How the 1980s Soap Opera Craze Changed Television Forever

    By Elana Levine  February 27, 2020
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