Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Remember when Carl Sagan trashed <em>Star Wars</em> on late-night TV?

Remember when Carl Sagan trashed Star Wars on late-night TV?

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Roistering, drunken and doomed: Listen to 5 famous Welshmen reciting Dylan Thomas.

Roistering, drunken and doomed: Listen to 5 famous Welshmen reciting Dylan Thomas.

By Dan Sheehan | November 9, 2021

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

On the Growing Potential of Computational Literature

By Drew Zeiba | November 9, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

Dan Jones Maps the Fault Lines of Collapse

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Here are this year's World Fantasy Award winners.

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Watch Tony Kushner perform William Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech.

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Read Robert Frost’s first published poem, written when he was 18.

Read Robert Frost’s first published poem, written when he was 18.

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Here’s the shortlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

Here’s the shortlist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

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