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    Watch the sinister trailer for the adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen.

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    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

    By Arwen Curry  October 18, 2023
    Endings

    On the Ending of a Literary Journal

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    Introduction

    Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

    By Nicholas Pearson  October 18, 2023
    Cat Language

    You Had Me At Meow: On the Hidden Language of Cats

    By Sarah Brown  October 18, 2023
    Doctors

    Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

    By Diksha Basu  October 18, 2023
    Women in Science

    How the Lessons of “Lady Doctors” of the 19th Century Helped Write a Contemporary Novel

    By Ritu Mukerji  October 18, 2023
    What to Watch

    Butcher’s Crossing Betrays the Brilliant Novel That Inspired It

    By Michelle Nijhuis  October 18, 2023
    Activism

    The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Mass Media Made Mass Protest

    By Vincent Bevins  October 18, 2023
    Gaza

    Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

    By Adania Shibli  October 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Vincent Bevins on How to Tend the Flames of Protests

    By Keen On  October 18, 2023
    Open Letter

    An Open Letter in Support of Adania Shibli From More Than 350 Writers, Editors, and Publishers

    By Literary Hub  October 17, 2023
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    Will Harris on the Local Future of Food

    By Keen On  October 17, 2023
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    Here’s how you can help people in Gaza right now.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 16, 2023
    America

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    The Internet

    You Will Live on the Internet: The Grim Realities of the Metaverse

    By Rachel O'Dwyer  October 16, 2023
    Inspiration

    Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

    By J. Ryan Stradal  October 16, 2023
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    Joanna Robinson and Gavin Edwards on The Reign of Marvel

    By Keen On  October 16, 2023
    Halloween

    Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless

    By Michael Kraus  October 13, 2023
    What to Watch

    What Does Playing the Devil Incarnate Do to a Young Girl?

    By Marlena Williams  October 13, 2023
    Horror

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    By Dorothea Lasky  October 13, 2023
    Immigrant Stories

    The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy

    By Thrity Umrigar  October 13, 2023
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