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    Talk Easy

    Evan Osnos on the 2024 Election

    By Talk Easy  March 21, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize.

    By Literary Hub  March 20, 2024
    Medicine

    Magic and Medicinal: On the Pharmacological Potential of Mushrooms

    By Nicholas P. Money  March 20, 2024
    Human Nature

    Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

    By Elspeth Barker  March 20, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Lily Kelting on Holy Terroir

    By Emergence Magazine  March 20, 2024
    The Hub

    Your spring equinox reading, sorted.

    By Emily Temple  March 19, 2024
    The Hub

    The National Book Foundation announces its 2024 5 Under 35 honorees.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 19, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s how you can help slain poet Heba Abu Nada’s family get to safety.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 19, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame

    By Cameron Manley  March 19, 2024
    Literary Friendships

    What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

    By Rachel Cohen  March 19, 2024
    Biology

    How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

    By Venki Ramakrishnan  March 19, 2024
    In Conversation

    Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 19, 2024
    The Hub

    Sally Rooney continues to speak out about Gaza.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 18, 2024
    Animals

    “She’s Bouncing the Ball!” On the Uncanny Way Octopuses Play

    By David Toomey  March 18, 2024
    Spies

    Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

    By Valorie Castellanos Clark  March 18, 2024
    Basketball

    How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Scott Howard-Cooper  March 18, 2024
    Activism

    Francophone, Anglophone… Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

    By Musih Tedji Xaviere  March 18, 2024
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards.

    By Drew Broussard  March 15, 2024
    The Bible

    Sacrifice and Obedience: Marilynne Robinson on the Timeless Tale of Abraham and Isaac

    By Marilynne Robinson  March 15, 2024
    Missed Connections

    On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

    By Melissa Pritchard  March 15, 2024
    Book Design

    Not Just Covers, But Every Page: Why Writers Should Talk About Book Design Early On

    By Debbie Berne  March 15, 2024
    Aging

    Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

    By Lyn Slater  March 15, 2024
    Women in History

    Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

    By Stephanie Dray  March 15, 2024
    The Hub

    More serialized novels, please.

    By Drew Broussard  March 14, 2024
    Gaza

    Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival

    By Literary Hub  March 14, 2024
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