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    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 20, 2024
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    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 20, 2024
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    On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

    By Katherine J. Chen  December 19, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

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    By Maris Kreizman  December 19, 2024
    The Hub

    The rom-com of…Young Werther? Goethe’s famous sadsack is getting a new adaptation.

    By Brittany Allen  December 18, 2024
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    According to library checkouts, New Yorkers read a lot of Gabrielle Zevin this year.

    By James Folta  December 18, 2024
    Artists

    “A Writer Who Draws.” On the Life and Creative Legacy of Saul Steinberg

    By Liana Finck  December 18, 2024
    Gaza

    Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote

    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2024
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    Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

    By Brittany Allen  December 16, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Self-Help?

    The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

    By Ian Williams  December 16, 2024
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    The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

    By Karla Kelsey  December 16, 2024
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    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 13, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ekphrastic Influences: Derek Mong on Finding Inspiration at the Museum

    By Derek Mong  December 13, 2024
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    A Musical Divorce: How Money Problems and a Bad Manager Tore the Beatles Apart

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2024
    The Hub

    Reporters Without Borders finds that Palestine was the deadliest place in 2024 for journalists.

    By James Folta  December 12, 2024
    Book Bans

    New Jersey fights back in the face of national book-banning.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 12, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Search of the Perfect Piece of Wood

    By Callum Robinson  December 12, 2024
    Free Speech

    Peeling The Onion: Did the Infowars Decision Just Kill Satire? 

    By Aron Solomon  December 12, 2024
    Social Media

    Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

    By Maris Kreizman  December 12, 2024
    Gaza

    A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS

    By Literary Hub  December 12, 2024
    Moral Panics

    On “White Slavery” and the Roots of the Contemporary Sex Trafficking Panic

    By Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam  December 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Joseph Earl Thomas wins The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.

    By James Folta  December 11, 2024
    Literary Heroes

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    By Nathan Deuel  December 11, 2024
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