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    Excerpts

    When the Goodness of a Woman Was Judged By the Bread She Baked

    By Linda Civitello  July 3, 2017
    Film

    Will Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series Finally Get Its Adaptation?

    By Emily Temple  June 30, 2017
    Music

    Playlist for a Classic Novel: Beloved

    By Emily Temple  June 29, 2017
    Op-Ed

    A Book Festival in Paradise Grapples with Its Own Contradictions

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 29, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When I Worked as an Assistant to My Hero, Adrienne Rich

    By Victoria Redel  June 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Problem With Writing About Florida

    By Kristen Arnett  June 28, 2017
    News

    Can You Really Have a Book Club for Eight Million People?

    By Matt Grant  June 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    Eating California’s Most Controversial Ice Cream

    By Amy Ettinger  June 28, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean

    By Hannah Arendt  June 27, 2017
    Essay

    It Costs $55 to Learn How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind

    By Daryl Gregory  June 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

    By Silas Dent Zobal  June 27, 2017
    Q and A

    When a Bookseller Tries to Buy a Bookstore

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Food, Family, and Fairy Tale Horror

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 27, 2017
    Where to Go

    The Rise of Women-Only Literary Spaces, UK Edition

    By Thea Hawlin  June 26, 2017
    Essay

    Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 26, 2017
    Film

    Is Watchmen Coming to TV?

    By Emily Temple  June 23, 2017
    Politics

    Plum Sykes: You Know It’s Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

    By Plum Sykes  June 23, 2017
    Essay

    Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

    By Dave Boling  June 23, 2017
    Events

    An American Bookseller Reports from a Glamorous Italian Bookfair

    By Jenn Witte  June 23, 2017
    Excerpts

    Field Notes From My Dementia

    By Gerda Saunders  June 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    No Frills

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 22, 2017
    Politics

    How Did America’s Banks Get So Much Political Power?

    By Isaac Kaplan  June 22, 2017
    Poets

    Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World’s First Poet?

    By Charles Halton  June 22, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

    By Ibrahim Ahmad  June 22, 2017
    What to Read

    9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

    By Ed Simon  June 21, 2017
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