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    End of Year Lists

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Literary Hub  December 27, 2016
    Excerpts

    Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 27, 2016
    Excerpts

    Where is the Power in Mass Protest?

    By Sophie Pinkham  December 27, 2016
    Criticism

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Atheist Marvels, Just in Time For Christmas

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 23, 2016
    Excerpts

    Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

    By Jeanette Winterson  December 23, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    Literary Hub’s 10 Most Read Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2016
    Deep Dive

    On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

    By Emily Temple  December 22, 2016
    Criticism

    Against Nature Writing

    By Blair Braverman  December 22, 2016
    End of Year Lists

    The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

    By Emily Temple  December 21, 2016
    Feature

    Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

    By Lawrence Block  December 21, 2016
    Feature

    18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

    By Emily Temple  December 20, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Shirley Hazzard’s Teenage Spy Career

    By Paul French  December 20, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Please Don’t Make Your Child Read Hemingway

    By Emily Temple  December 20, 2016
    Feature

    The Soft Power of Banal Nationalism: Blueprint for Fascist Creep

    By Alex Quicho  December 20, 2016
    History

    A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

    By David Welky  December 20, 2016
    Art

    Rabih Alameddine is Amplifying the Images and Art of Aleppo

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2016
    Criticism

    The Art of a Nation Will Outlast Its Governments

    By Veronica Esposito  December 19, 2016
    Excerpts

    Minorities Are the Majority

    By Salena Godden  December 19, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 19, 2016
    Excerpts

    Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 16, 2016
    Craft

    Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal’s Czechoslovakia

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  December 16, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

    By Pablo Medina  December 16, 2016
    Did you know?

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About How the NY Times Book Review Works

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

    By Jonathan Reiber  December 15, 2016
    Craft

    Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

    By Pedro Almodóvar  December 15, 2016
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