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    Personal Essay

    Claire Messud: What I Learned From My Mother’s Library

    By Claire Messud  August 24, 2017
    Where to Go

    A Literary Long Weekend in Las Vegas

    By Maegan Poland  August 23, 2017
    Photography

    Gene Smith’s Documentary Obsessions

    By Sam Stephenson  August 23, 2017
    Excerpts

    Young, Gifted, and Black: On the Politicization of Nina Simone

    By Malik Gaines  August 23, 2017
    Excerpts

    An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  August 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

    By Frederick Crews  August 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    Towards a Unifying Identity for the Left: Citizenship

    By Mark Lilla  August 22, 2017
    Close Reading

    Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism

    By Mark Bray  August 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Stories We’ll Tell: Getting Ready for a Total Eclipse of the Sun

    By Valerie Geary  August 21, 2017
    News

    Who Should Play the Female Dorian Gray?

    By Emily Temple  August 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Retracing Willa Cather’s Steps in the South of France

    By Marcia DeSanctis  August 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

    By Jill Bialosky  August 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Searching for Stanley Kunitz’s Garden

    By Nell Boeschenstein  August 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Long History of White Nationalism in America

    By George Hawley  August 16, 2017
    Feature

    How the Silent Book Club Gave Me Back My Reading Life

    By Maggie Downs  August 16, 2017
    Politics

    Fire, Fury, and America’s Failure to Learn From the Past

    By David L. Ulin  August 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

    By Jeremiah Moss  August 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

    By Fiona Helmsley  August 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

    By Stephanie Gangi  August 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

    By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  August 15, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Pakistan Feels Like an L.A. Noir

    By Kamila Shamsie  August 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    Beyond the High Blue Air

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 14, 2017
    Criticism

    Is The Dark Tower the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

    By J.W. McCormack  August 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

    By Linnea Hartsuyker  August 10, 2017
    Awards

    Celebrating Women Writers & Readers With the Romance Writers of America

    By Tessa Dare  August 10, 2017
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