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    Meditations on a Passing Eagle, and the Beauty of Desolation

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    What Does It Take to Be Accepted as an American?

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    Inspiration

    Writing About the Forgotten Black Women of the Italo-Ethiopian War

    By Maaza Mengiste  September 24, 2019
    The Hub

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    By Dan Sheehan  September 23, 2019
    The Hub

    Hundreds of authors signed an open letter supporting Kamila Shamsie.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 23, 2019
    Racism

    On Justin Trudeau, Virginia Woolf, and the Orientalist History of Brownface

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 23, 2019
    Physics

    If You Existed in Multiple Universes, How Would You Act In This One?

    By Sean Carroll  September 23, 2019
    New in Fiction

    Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

    By Ann Patchett  September 23, 2019
    Animals

    The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

    By Michael S. A. Graziano  September 23, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    For Millennials, Self-Help is More About ‘We’ Than ‘Me’

    By Kathryn Watson  September 23, 2019
    Gender and Politics

    For Chelsea Manning, Coming Out and Whistleblowing Were Deeply Linked

    By Lida Maxwell  September 23, 2019
    Politics

    An Afternoon with an Elite Palestinian Family in Jerusalem

    By Lis Harris  September 23, 2019
    American History

    The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

    By T. H. Breen  September 23, 2019
    The Hub

    Gift idea for a weird poet: a handwritten book of poetry by Bonnie (of ‘and Clyde’ fame).

    By Jessie Gaynor  September 20, 2019
    US Politics

    The Long Legacy of America’s Militarist, Racist Demagoguery

    By Greg Grandin  September 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Climate activist Greta Thunberg has two books coming out with Penguin Press next year.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

    By Literary Hub  September 20, 2019
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    Epic scams, Rear Window meets Get Out, and Chris Rock: the week in book deals.

    By Emily Temple  September 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Amazon employees are staging the Seattle headquarters’ first strike over climate change.

    By Rebecca Renner  September 20, 2019
    Folktales

    Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

    By Neil Gaiman  September 20, 2019
    Cities

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    By Ismail Muhammad  September 20, 2019
    Animals

    Animals Are Basically… Millennials?

    By Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers  September 20, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

    By Rosa Boshier  September 20, 2019
    Hysteria

    In Search of Hysteria: The Man Who Thought He Could Define Madness

    By Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell  September 20, 2019
    TV

    The Reality of Post-Chernobyl Life: Way More Complicated Than a TV Show

    By Katya Cengel  September 20, 2019
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