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    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    Transitions

    How Cooking Helped Me Find Joy After Coming Out

    By Veronica Esposito  August 2, 2019
    Immigration

    The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

    By Nancy E. Davis  August 2, 2019
    Paintings

    People Who Look Like the Paintings They’re Looking At: A Photo Project

    By Stefan Draschan  August 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Edward Snowden’s memoir will be published in September.

    By Corinne Segal  August 1, 2019
    The Hub

    Don’t forget to watch the Ursula K. Le Guin documentary tomorrow night.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 1, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

    By Rachel Seiffert  August 1, 2019
    Folklore

    On Our Relentless Quest for Bigfoot

    By John Zada  August 1, 2019
    Small Presses

    The Life and Death of an American
    Indie Press

    By Taylor Moore  August 1, 2019
    Design

    If You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Book

    By Literary Hub  August 1, 2019
    Technology

    The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

    By Finn Brunton  August 1, 2019
    Comedy

    On the Difficulty of Translating British Humor Into American Comedy 

    By Alessandro Tersigni  August 1, 2019
    The Hub

    127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud’s grave.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 31, 2019
    The Hub

    There’s a newly translated John Steinbeck story about a chef and his cat.

    By Corinne Segal  July 31, 2019
    The Hub

    All my libations must have worked, because a Circe series is coming to HBO Max.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 31, 2019
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    The Perils of Designing a Cover for a Novel You Truly Love

    By Oliver Munday  July 31, 2019
    Fascism

    Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking

    By Giacomo Lichtner  July 31, 2019
    Reading Across America

    Eclipsed, a Wandering Reading Series, Finds a Home

    By Janelle Greco  July 31, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Poetry

    Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

    By Anna Hundert  July 31, 2019
    Literary Longweekend

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Hartford, Connecticut

    By Michele Herrmann  July 31, 2019
    The Hub

    40 writers signed a letter in protest of ‘abhorrent’ conditions at the US-Mexico border.

    By Corinne Segal  July 30, 2019
    The Hub

    Murder? Poachers? What the hell is going on with Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens?

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 30, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
    Mothers

    The Books That Bear the Weight
    of the Living

    By Angelique Stevens  July 30, 2019
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