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The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

Who's Afraid of Communist Writers?

By Juliana Spahr | November 16, 2018

What It's Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

What It's Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

Jessica Wilbanks On the Pain of "Falling from the Nest"

By Jessica Wilbanks | November 16, 2018

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

"Guys, I'm Rich. What Can I Get For You?"

By Zachary Leader | November 15, 2018

How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

Dueling Affairs and a Scandal That Rocked Washington

By Patricia Miller | November 15, 2018

My Parents' Wedding Was Arranged.  I Wanted Something Different.

My Parents' Wedding Was Arranged. I Wanted Something Different.

Huda Al-Marashi on a Not So Typical American Love Story

By Huda Al-Marashi | November 15, 2018

Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize

Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize

Priyanka Champaneri for Her novel The City of Good Death

By Literary Hub | November 15, 2018

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How America Remembers Emmett Till

By Elliott Gorn | November 15, 2018

Remembering Stan Lee, and the World He Created

By Literary Hub | November 14, 2018

On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

By Literary Hub | November 14, 2018

Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

Marina Benjamin on Nighttime's Wayward Rhythms

By Marina Benjamin | November 14, 2018

My Son, Stan Lee's Pen Pal

My Son, Stan Lee's Pen Pal

Rion Amilcar Scott on Childhood, Enchantment, and Stan Lee's Legacy

By Rion Amilcar Scott | November 14, 2018

<em>Dirty Dancing</em> Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

Esther Newton Makes an Important Case

By Esther Newton | November 14, 2018

Wouldn't It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

Wouldn't It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

Astronomer Chris Impey is Out Here Asking the Important Questions

By Chris Impey | November 14, 2018

Spider-Man in the UK: The Hero I Needed

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Nikesh Shukla on the Legacy of Stan Lee

By Nikesh Shukla | November 14, 2018

Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

One of the Great American Storytellers

By Tyler Malone | November 14, 2018

Fragments of John McPhee: On Cary Grant, Ping-Pong, and Earthquakes

Fragments of John McPhee: On Cary Grant, Ping-Pong, and Earthquakes

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By John McPhee | November 13, 2018

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