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    Pessimism

    Roy Scranton: Narrative in the Anthropocene is the Enemy

    By Roy Scranton  September 18, 2019
    Personal Essay

    How Janet Mock Helped Me Dismantle My Assumptions

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    The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

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    Reading Women

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    The Hub

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    The Hub

    Here come the sex cult books!

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    The Hub

    Here is the Translated Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for this year’s $50,000 Kirkus Prize.

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    On the Dark and Dangerous Underbelly of Climate Conspiracy Theories

    By Anna Merlan  September 17, 2019
    Literary History

    My First Library Was a Library of Porn

    By Brian D. Bouldrey  September 17, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women

    By Rachel Eve Moulton  September 17, 2019
    History

    On the Snarky Poem That Got Its Author Murdered

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    What Stories Can Teach a New Generation of Black-Indigenous Farmers

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    Pain

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    By Anne Boyer  September 17, 2019
    Language

    Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

    By Jennifer Croft  September 17, 2019
    Style

    Josh Gondelman: Please Stop Trying to Make Dad Shoes Cool

    By Josh Gondelman  September 17, 2019
    Brazil

    One Person’s Junk Is Another Person’s Treasure

    By Eliane Brum  September 17, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is the Young People’s Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    Searching for Women’s Voices in the Harshest Landscape on Earth

    By Elizabeth Rush  September 16, 2019
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    The Lives of Women

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    By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019
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