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    What Does Playing the Devil Incarnate Do to a Young Girl?

    By Marlena Williams  October 13, 2023
    Horror

    Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

    By Dorothea Lasky  October 13, 2023
    Immigrant Stories

    The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy

    By Thrity Umrigar  October 13, 2023
    Climate Change

    The Bear Whisperer Lays Out the Profound Impact of Wildfires on Southern California’s Black Bear Population

    By Steve Searles and Chris Erskine  October 13, 2023
    Parenthood

    Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  October 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Elana K. Arnold Shares Lessons on Good and Evil from Books on the Second World War

    By Keen On  October 13, 2023
    Nobel Laureates

    Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

    By Katalin Karikó  October 12, 2023
    Birds

    The World’s Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

    By Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, Katharine E. Duffy and David Haines   October 12, 2023
    Sexuality

    We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

    By Fancy Feast  October 12, 2023
    End Times

    Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

    By Aleksander Hemon  October 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Vincent Schiraldi on the Illusions of the American Criminal Justice System

    By Keen On  October 12, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2023 Kirkus Prize.

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the attempt on his life will be published next year.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Here are the shortlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose.

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

    By Arwen Curry  October 11, 2023
    Cancer

    How to Write a Memoir While Dying

    By Dan O'Brien  October 11, 2023
    Medieval History

    Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

    By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
    Insomnia

    Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

    By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
    Horror

    How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

    By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Andy Mitchell on the Future of Psychedelics

    By Keen On  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Read a 1957 review of Ayn Rand’s “excruciatingly awful” Atlas Shrugged.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    A Short Story from Masatsugu Ono and Emergence Magazine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 10, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
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