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    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

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    Linguistics

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    Just the Right Book

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    Historical Fiction

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    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

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    For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

    By Jonathan Rée  August 21, 2019
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    On Victor Hugo’s Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

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    Literary History

    Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

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    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
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    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

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    Music

    At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

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    The Matrix 4 is happening, and Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell wrote the script.

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    Not parody: Please enjoy this interview with Gwyneth Paltrow’s “book curator.”

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    NPR: The world is on fire but these books are funny.

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    Meryl Streep to star in a new Steven Soderbergh film written by Deborah Eisenberg!

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    New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction.

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    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Essay Collections

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    Screenwriters

    Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

    By Walter Mosley  August 20, 2019
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