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    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    In Conversation

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    By Literary Hub  October 9, 2023
    The Hub

    bell hooks and Maxine Hong Kingston were among the winners at the American Book Awards.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    In Praise of Mariah Carey

    By Literary Hub  October 6, 2023
    Terrorism

    What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

    By Nabila Ramdani  October 6, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How Recycled American Batteries Pollute Communities Around the World

    By James Morton Turner  October 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Liberatory Art: What Passages Achieves in the History of Cinema and Desire

    By Frank Falisi  October 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Iain Reid on Seeing Foe Come to Life on Screen

    By Iain Reid  October 6, 2023
    The Hub

    Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Creativity

    A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

    By Pauls Toutonghi  October 5, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    The Hub

    These three writers just won MacArthur “genius” grants.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 4, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

    By Arwen Curry  October 4, 2023
    What to Watch

    50 Years Ago, One of the Gutsiest, Strangest Sci-Fi Movie Franchises Came to a Close with Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    By Matthew Hays  October 4, 2023
    Audiobook Narration

    On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

    By Freda Love Smith  October 4, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Charles Derber on How Capitalism is Driving Extinction

    By Keen On  October 4, 2023
    The Hub

    Exclusive: See the (sexy) cover for C. Michelle Lindley’s debut novel, The Nude.

    By Literary Hub  October 3, 2023
    Poverty

    Legacies Both Ragged and Rich: Michelle Tea on Poverty and the American Family

    By Michelle Tea  October 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    More, More, More: Why We Love Author Documentaries

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 3, 2023
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    Labor

    What the WGA’s Historic Contract Means for All Writers in the Fight Against Generative AI

    By Alexis Gunderson  October 3, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe’s Obsession With Eugenics

    By Mackenzie Cooley  October 3, 2023
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