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    Excerpts

    The Return by Hisham Matar

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Dark Money by Jane Mayer

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    In Memoriam

    How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  March 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Seeking Redemption Behind Bars

    By Tanya Erzen  March 24, 2017
    Events

    Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

    By Jen Michalski  March 23, 2017
    Awards

    Introducing the 2017 Whiting Award Winners

    By Emily Temple  March 22, 2017
    Design

    Art Spiegelman: If It Walks Like a Fascist…

    By Anthony Audi  March 22, 2017
    Criticism

    Camille Paglia on the Iconic Cover of Patti Smith’s Horses

    By Camille Paglia  March 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Dictionary Got Into the Marriage Equality Debate

    By Kory Stamper  March 22, 2017
    Feature

    Writers Respond to Defunding the NEA and NEH

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What My Grandfather’s Displacement Taught Me About the Refugee Crisis

    By Georgia Hunter  March 22, 2017
    Criticism

    Presidential Politics As Reality TV and Realist Fiction

    By Emma Lieber  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    Unlearnable Lessons on My Father’s Deathbed

    By Marina Benjamin  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Husband’s Loving Biography Ruined His Wife’s Reputation

    By Richard Holmes  March 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    Take Heart: Shakespeare’s Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

    By J.P. Romney and Rebecca Romney  March 20, 2017
    Design

    Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

    By Peter Bagge  March 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Just How Partisan is the Supreme Court?

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  March 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

    By Dwyer Murphy  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing on an Island at the End of the World

    By Nell Stevens  March 17, 2017
    News

    Legendary Poet Derek Walcott Has Died

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Kind of Empire Will China Be?

    By Howard W. French  March 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Valeria Luiselli on the Choices People Make in Coming to America

    By Valeria Luiselli  March 16, 2017
    Archives

    Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2017
    Politics

    What Did Hemingway Really Think of Castro?

    By Nicholas Reynolds  March 16, 2017
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