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    Deep Dive

    Lisa Hanawalt: Drawing Progressive Westerns from the Horse’s Perspective

    By Michelle Delgado  September 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Do Superheroes and Zombies Have to Do With the End of the World?

    By Peter Biskind  September 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

    By Imani Perry  September 18, 2018
    Essay

    How to Tour the Most Bookish Island in the World

    By Veronica Esposito  September 18, 2018
    Design

    The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

    By Roman Muradov  September 18, 2018
    Politics

    The Fall of Men Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

    By Rebecca Solnit  September 17, 2018
    Essay

    At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

    By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf  September 17, 2018
    Biography

    Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

    By Albert Samaha  September 17, 2018
    Poets

    Danez Smith: “Oh I want to eat this poem.”

    By Danez Smith  September 17, 2018
    Essay

    Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era

    By Ann duCille  September 17, 2018
    Awards

    Here’s the All-Female Shortlist for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2018
    Awards

    Here is the Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2018
    Events

    Lit Hub’s Brooklyn Book Festival Preview: 8 Events Not to Miss

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Traveling To Spain With My Father’s Ashes

    By Devin Galaudet  September 14, 2018
    Awards

    Here is the Nonfiction Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2018
    Awards

    Here is the Poetry Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

    By John Logsdon  September 13, 2018
    Essay

    After the Storm: On the Artist’s Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

    By Jennifer Acker  September 13, 2018
    Awards

    The Translated Literature Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2018
    Awards

    The Young People’s Literature Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2018
    Advice

    Do You Really Need a Degree to Be a Librarian?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 12, 2018
    Essay

    Better Call Saul Knows Morality is About More Than Individual Choice

    By Eric Thurm  September 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    How the First Punk in East Berlin Became an Enemy of the State

    By Tim Mohr  September 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    When Fascists Weaponize Free Speech Absolutism

    By Jason Stanley  September 12, 2018
    Feature

    So a Writer and a Comedian Walk Onto a Stage…

    By Rakesh Satyal  September 12, 2018
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