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    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Smut I Say!

    When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    Animals

    How Can You Know What Your Dog
    is Really Feeling?

    By Alexandra Horowitz  September 12, 2019
    WWII

    The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race

    By Richard Askwith  September 12, 2019
    Imperialism

    Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

    By Hazel V. Carby  September 12, 2019
    Poets

    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
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