How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

Fred Kaplan on the Nuclear First-Strike Dilemma

By Fred M. Kaplan | January 31, 2020

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

We're Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment's Effect on Brain Health

We're Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment's Effect on Brain Health

Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Microglial Cells and Nature's "Neat Evolutionary Trick"

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa | January 31, 2020

14 Books You Should Read <br>in February

14 Books You Should Read
in February

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

“Clearly, some years, cinematic offerings are more
encouraging than others.”

By Roxane Gay | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

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Jerry Seinfeld's first book since the '90s will show how his jokes have evolved.

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The Academy of American Poets has received $4.5 million to keep its poet laureate program going.

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A writer is holding Patrick deWitt's website hostage—until he reads their manuscript.

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Attention: we are getting TWO new Katherine Dunn books.

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How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

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Stanislas Dehaene on the Neuroscience of Focused Learning

By Stanislas Dehaene | January 30, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

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Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's Blue-Collar Aristocrats

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The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of<br> Nazi-Occupied France

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Justus Rosenberg's Time in the Pyrenees: Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Mann, and More

By Justus Rosenberg | January 30, 2020

Jack London's Call to Service and Humanism

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From the Introduction to Upton Sinclair's 1915 Anthology of Justice

By Jack London | January 30, 2020

15 Essential Colombian Novels You Should Read

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Recommendations from Juan Cardenas and Margarita García Robayo, on the Eve of Hay Festival Cartagena

By Literary Hub | January 30, 2020

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