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    Adam Gopnik on the Ur-Gentrification Story of Place des Vosges

    By Adam Gopnik  April 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Conflicted Early Feminism of Louisa Catherine Adams

    By Louisa Thomas  April 14, 2016
    Essay

    When Teaching is a Calling

    By Win Bassett  April 14, 2016
    Feature

    Please Make Us Stop: A Real Christian Tale of Mississippi House Bill 1523

    By Kiese Laymon  April 13, 2016
    Feature

    Margaret Eby on House Bill 1523

    By Margaret Eby  April 13, 2016
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    Katy Simpson Smith on House Bill 1523

    By Katy Simpson Smith  April 13, 2016
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    Andrew Malan Milward on House Bill 1523

    By Andrew Malan Milward  April 13, 2016
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    Catherine Lacey on House Bill 1523

    By Catherine Lacey  April 13, 2016
    Feature

    Five Mississippi Writers on Why They Oppose Their State’s New Anti-LGBTQ “Religious Freedom” Law

    By Literary Hub  April 13, 2016
    Essay

    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
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