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    Melissa Broder: Thoughts On Open Marriage and Illness

    By Melissa Broder  April 13, 2016
    Essay

    From Chaos in Libya to the Edge of ISIS in Northern Iraq

    By Moises Saman  April 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    Avoid the Pathways to Psychic Pain

    By David A. Kessler  April 13, 2016
    Essay

    On Fandom, Obsessions, and the World Wide Web

    By Justin Tussing  April 12, 2016
    Essay

    The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

    By Benjamin Warner  April 12, 2016
    What to Read

    Five Books Making News This Week: Poets, Pretensions, and Burglaries

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 12, 2016
    Essay

    Why Do Cats Love Bookstores?

    By Jason Diamond  April 11, 2016
    Essay

    Why Wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

    By Rumaan Alam  April 11, 2016
    Music

    Ten Musicians Who Could Be Novelists

    By Bob Boilen  April 11, 2016
    Essay

    At Home in Deaf Culture: Storytelling in an Un-Writable Language

    By Sara Nović  April 11, 2016
    Excerpts

    How to Make Friends With an Animal On Facebook

    By Alexander Pschera  April 8, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Can the “Literary” Survive Technology?

    By Sven Birkerts  April 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Greatest Violin No One’s Ever Heard

    By Quincy Whitney  April 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Iceberg

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 7, 2016
    Essay

    Fatima Bhutto: My Grandfather’s Library, Relic of a Freer Pakistan

    By Fatima Bhutto  April 7, 2016
    Essay

    The Bookstore Fights Back

    By Ann Patchett  April 7, 2016
    Essay

    On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

    By Kathryn Harrison  April 7, 2016
    What to Read

    10 Contemporary Baseball Books for the New Season

    By Dwyer Murphy  April 6, 2016
    Essay

    A Fundamentalist Christian Discovers the Greater World

    By Kelly Kerney  April 6, 2016
    Conversations

    Rob Spillman on Craving Danger and Writing the Past

    By Michael Barron  April 6, 2016
    Essay

    Thomas Piketty: Why Save the Bankers?

    By Thomas Piketty  April 5, 2016
    Criticism

    On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

    By Bridget Read  April 5, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Red Parts

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 5, 2016
    What to Read

    The Staff Shelf: Itinerant Literate

    By Interview with a Bookstore  April 5, 2016
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    The Prophecy of Martin Luther King, Jr., From Vietnam to Iraq

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 4, 2016
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