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    Excerpts

    To Heal or To Hurt? On Being a Military Medic in Iraq

    By Jon Kerstetter  September 15, 2017
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    To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric

    By Thomas S. Mullaney  September 15, 2017
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    Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of “Survivor”

    By Elizabeth Rosner  September 15, 2017
    Personal History

    Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

    By Kristen Martin  September 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    From Triumph to Terror: How America Grappled with the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

    By Jennet Conant  September 14, 2017
    Book News

    On the Importance of Sending American Booksellers Abroad

    By Matt Grant  September 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

    By Adam Federman  September 14, 2017
    History

    Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

    By Philip Ó Ceallaigh  September 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    11 Ways of Looking at Pleasure

    By Alex Lemon  September 14, 2017
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    Writing the Untold History of American Imperial Power

    By Alfred McCoy  September 14, 2017
    History

    The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

    By Jennet Conant  September 13, 2017
    Awards

    The 2017 Man Booker Shortlist is Here!

    By Literary Hub  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Technology Makes Us Less Free

    By Franklin Foer  September 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Shania Twain Made Me a Writer

    By Emily Yahr  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    How French Cuisine Took Over the World

    By Henry Notaker  September 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Waiting in the Borderlands with Kurdish Refugees

    By Kapka Kassabova  September 13, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Lessons of My Childhood in Communist Poland are Relevant Again

    By Danuta Hinc  September 13, 2017
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    Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War

    By Jennet Conant  September 12, 2017
    Feature

    The Divinity of Dog Writing

    By Nathan Goldman  September 12, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Poverty, Politics, and Palestine

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Get to Know the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Read the Essay “Big Red” from Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This?

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Read from Marina Carr’s Play, Hecuba

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
    Design

    When Your Favorite Writer Does Not Like Your Initial Cover Designs

    By Na Kim  September 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother’s Ghost

    By Kayla Rae Whitaker  September 11, 2017
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