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    5 Books Making News this Week: Poverty, Politics, and Palestine

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 12, 2017
    Awards

    Get to Know the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

    By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
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    Read the Essay “Big Red” from Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This?

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    Read from Marina Carr’s Play, Hecuba

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    Design

    When Your Favorite Writer Does Not Like Your Initial Cover Designs

    By Na Kim  September 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother’s Ghost

    By Kayla Rae Whitaker  September 11, 2017
    Events

    The Ebullient Joy of the Inaugural Well-Read Black Girl Festival

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  September 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    Balzac Tried to Buy a Waistcoat for Every Day of the Year (and Other Revelations of Parisian Fashion)

    By Valerie Steele  September 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

    By Audre Lorde  September 11, 2017
    Essay

    “He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

    By Philip Roth  September 8, 2017
    Feature

    I Watched the Entire Hot Shakespeare Show So You Don’t Have To

    By Eric Thurm  September 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America

    By Jane Lazarre  September 8, 2017
    Criticism

    Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2017
    Awards

    Announcing the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist for Non-Fiction

    By Literary Hub  September 7, 2017
    Music

    Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Lover

    By Emily Temple  September 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    Scenes from an Emergency Clinic in the Sonoran Desert

    By Lee Sandusky  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?

    By Kyoko Mori  September 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America

    By Brandon Taylor  September 6, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News this Week: Spies, Second Wives, and the South

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

    By Chelsea Martin  September 5, 2017
    Memoir

    How to Write a Book With Traumatic Brain Injury

    By Alice Anderson  September 1, 2017
    Did you know?

    Eat Like Your Favorite Author: Writers on their Signature Sandwiches

    By Ian Seiter  September 1, 2017
    Where to Go

    The World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores, Gathered in One Place

    By Katie Orphan  August 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Wearing the Veil: What It Means to Wear the Hijab (Or Not)

    By Sheila Regan  August 31, 2017
    Excerpts

    So, Can We Actually Predict Earthquakes?

    By Kathryn Miles  August 31, 2017
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