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    Announcing the 2024 class of Periplus fellows.

    By Literary Hub  January 9, 2024
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    Here are this year’s finalists for The Story Prize.

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    Libraries

    A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

    By Stephen McCauley  January 9, 2024
    Feminism

    Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

    By Elizabeth Flock  January 9, 2024
    In Conversation

    Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 9, 2024
    Art History

    Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

    By Mark Polizzotti  January 9, 2024
    The Hub

    Cops search middle school for banned books in liberal Massachusetts

    By Jonny Diamond  January 8, 2024
    Motherhood

    Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

    By Marie Doezema  January 8, 2024
    Gossip

    Epistolary Gossip: On the History and Morality of the “Poison Pen” Letter

    By Emily Cockayne  January 8, 2024
    Sobriety

    All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

    By Christiana Spens  January 8, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s how you can help resurrect Gaza’s libraries.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 5, 2024
    Booksellers

    What Booksellers Can Teach Us About Reading, Writing and Publishing

    By Will Mountain Cox  January 5, 2024
    Artists

    How the Fire That Destroyed My Paintings Turned Me Into a Writer

    By Jonathan Santlofer  January 5, 2024
    Painting

    On the Serious Business of 19th-Century Fairy Paintings

    By Jennifer Higgie  January 5, 2024
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2024 Silvers-Dudley Prizes for literary and arts journalism.

    By Literary Hub  January 4, 2024
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    These are the bestselling (new) books of 2023.

    By Emily Temple  January 4, 2024
    Music as Literature

    Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews

    By Griffin Ondaatje  January 4, 2024
    Blindness

    How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

    By M. Leona Godin  January 4, 2024
    Biography

    Conversations with the Long-Dead: My Literary Friendship with Margaret Cavendish

    By Francesca Peacock  January 3, 2024
    Storytelling

    Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

    By Emily Schultz  January 3, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

    By Michelle Wildgen  January 2, 2024
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

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    The Craft of Writing

    Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

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    What to Watch

    The 15 Best Literary Adaptations of 2023

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2023
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