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    The Hub

    Here are the 2023 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

    By Literary Hub  December 6, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  December 6, 2023
    What to Watch

    Eileen Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

    By Emmeline Clein  December 6, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    Precarious Liminality: How Parole Keeps Ex-Prisoners Stranded Between Two Worlds

    By Ben Austen  December 6, 2023
    The Natural World

    Colonizing Plants: How Bougainvillea Conquered the World

    By Shahnaz Habib  December 6, 2023
    The Hub

    Patricia Engel has won the 2023 John Dos Passos Prize.

    By Literary Hub  December 5, 2023
    Beauty

    More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

    By Zahra Hankir  December 5, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023
    Spirituality

    Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

    By Christian Wiman  December 5, 2023
    What to Watch

    Poor Things is a Curious Phantasmagoria

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 5, 2023
    Music

    “The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

    By Dylan Jones  December 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Bulent Atalay on the Transgressive Minds of Geniuses

    By Keen On  December 5, 2023
    Nature Writing

    Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

    By Edward Moreta Jr.  December 4, 2023
    Early Humans

    How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

    By John Charles Chasteen  December 4, 2023
    On Grief

    Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

    By Gabriel Bump  December 4, 2023
    African Literature

    Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

    By Jessica Powers  December 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Kliph Nesteroff on the History of Americans Objecting to Comedy

    By Keen On  December 4, 2023
    The Hub

    Mosab Abu Toha and his family have made it to Egypt.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 4, 2023
    In Memoriam

    RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

    By Jonny Diamond  December 1, 2023
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in December

    By Emily Temple  December 1, 2023
    What to Watch

    Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes’s May December

    By Hannah Bonner  December 1, 2023
    Keen On

    William B. Eimicke on Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Connected

    By Keen On  December 1, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2023
    Manuscripts

    “Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

    By Christopher de Hamel  November 30, 2023
    Art and Life

    Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

    By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore  November 30, 2023
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