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    When Amy Hempel’s Dog Was Briefly Reincarnated as a Bear

    By Amy Hempel  November 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    What the Stoic Philosophers Knew About Being Free

    By A.A. Long  November 16, 2018
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    The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

    By Juliana Spahr  November 16, 2018
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    What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

    By Jessica Wilbanks  November 16, 2018
    Biography

    How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

    By Zachary Leader  November 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

    By Patricia Miller  November 15, 2018
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    My Parents’ Wedding Was Arranged. I Wanted Something Different.

    By Huda Al-Marashi  November 15, 2018
    Awards

    Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize

    By Literary Hub  November 15, 2018
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    How America Remembers Emmett Till

    By Elliott Gorn  November 15, 2018
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Stan Lee, and the World He Created

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

    By Marina Benjamin  November 14, 2018
    In Memoriam

    My Son, Stan Lee’s Pen Pal

    By Rion Amilcar Scott  November 14, 2018
    Op-Ed

    Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

    By Esther Newton  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Wouldn’t It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

    By Chris Impey  November 14, 2018
    Feature

    Spider-Man in the UK: The Hero I Needed

    By Nikesh Shukla  November 14, 2018
    Feature

    Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

    By Tyler Malone  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Fragments of John McPhee: On Cary Grant, Ping-Pong, and Earthquakes

    By John McPhee  November 13, 2018
    Essay

    Why Do We Love Joni Mitchell the Way We Do?

    By Nick Coleman  November 13, 2018
    Op-Ed

    My Brilliant Friend is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

    By Emily Temple  November 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    So, Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  November 12, 2018
    Biography

    On the Tenacity and Bravery of a Great Journalist

    By Lindsey Hilsum  November 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Philosophy of the Belly Dancer

    By L.L. Wynn  November 12, 2018
    Biography

    Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

    By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
    Awards

    Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Hannah Fry

    By Emily Temple  November 12, 2018
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