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    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Oxford American, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 11, 2019
    The Hub

    Area woman heads to town and impulse-buys entire bookstore.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 11, 2019
    The Hub

    Susan Sontag reacting to 9/11 in The New Yorker remains essential reading.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 11, 2019
    The Paranormal

    Laura van den Berg on Divining the Unseeable, and Her Family’s History with the Paranormal

    By Laura van den Berg  September 11, 2019
    Rural America

    Stop Treating Rural White Voters as a Monolith

    By Christopher Ingraham  September 11, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

    By Natalie Adler  September 11, 2019
    Refugees

    Dina Nayeri on Returning to the Hotel-Turned-Refugee-Camp of Her Childhood

    By Dina Nayeri  September 11, 2019
    Economics

    From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible

    By Nicholas Lemann  September 11, 2019
    Reading Across America

    How to Attract Touring Authors to a City That Most Skip

    By Julia Dixon Evans  September 11, 2019
    Writers in Conversation

    What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand

    By Caits Meissner  September 11, 2019
    Astronomy

    The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter

    By John Johnson, Jr.  September 11, 2019
    Reading Women

    On Writing the Apocalypse Through a Crow’s Perspective

    By Reading Women  September 11, 2019
    Feminism

    Rebecca Fisseha on #MeToo in Ethiopia and Eritrea

    By Rebecca Fisseha  September 11, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Math

    From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspective

    By Amir Alexander  September 10, 2019
    Wine

    A Working Night in the Life of a Poet-Turned-Sommelier

    By Rosie Schaap  September 10, 2019
    Identity

    Tash Aw: Living and Writing as a Divided Southeast-Asian

    By Tash Aw  September 10, 2019
    Legends

    On the Occasion of Margaret Atwood Day, Here Are Some Photos of Her Over the Years

    By Literary Hub  September 10, 2019
    Kashmir

    Under Siege: Mirza Waheed
    on Kashmir

    By Mirza Waheed  September 10, 2019
    The Hub

    Here’s the opening of Elena Ferrante’s next novel.

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2019
    The Hub

    The first reviews of The Goldfinch are…not good.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 9, 2019
    The Hub

    Random House publisher Susan Kamil has died at the age of 69.

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2019
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Becoming Duchess Goldblatt.

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2019
    Writers in Conversation

    Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

    By Lori Feathers  September 9, 2019
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