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    Criticism

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    Essay

    How to Bake a Pie for the Holidays: Long Ago Lessons from My Mom

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    How to Tell the Story of Bethlehem

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    Palestinian Children’s Book Becomes Target for Boycott and Censorship

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    End of Year Lists

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2017

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    Addicted to Glamour: Writing My Way Back to the Center of Life

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    The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile

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    W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

    By Tracy O'Neill  December 14, 2017
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    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
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    Life in the Body of a Runner

    By Kyoko Mori  December 14, 2017
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    David Grossman on the Stories We Tell Ourselves

    By David Grossman  December 14, 2017
    Essay

    After Alabama: Political Victories Don’t Put Food on the Table

    By Brandon Taylor  December 13, 2017
    Literary Criticism

    The Bloody Catharsis of Femme Revenge

    By Emma C. Eisenberg  December 13, 2017
    Essay

    On the Perilous Plight of the Part-Time Librarian

    By Annie Spence  December 13, 2017
    Events

    One of America’s Most Bookish Cities is Getting a New Lit Festival

    By Steph Opitz  December 13, 2017
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    See It Here: The Cover for Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Do We Banish the Monster That Is Donald Trump?

    By Ariel Dorfman  December 13, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Chuck Palahniuk on the Awful Necessity of Author Photos

    By Chuck Palahniuk  December 13, 2017
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    How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

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