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Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 5 to 1

Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 5 to 1

The Ongoing Cascade of the #MeToo Movement

By Literary Hub | December 21, 2018

Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

On the Murder of Journalists and Stifling of Speech

By Margaret Atwood | December 20, 2018

Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

Aminatta Forna Talks To Taiye Selasi

By John Freeman | December 20, 2018

Why Do We Hug Each Other?

Why Do We Hug Each Other?

The Answer is Science. It's Science. (Also It's Nice)

By Haemin Sunim | December 20, 2018

"Luminous Traitor"

Martin Duberman

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 20, 2018

The Temptations of Playing the Muse

The Temptations of Playing the Muse

On Love, Marriage, Charles Dickens, and Becoming the Writer I Needed to Be

By Samantha Silva | December 19, 2018

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Making Dad Jokes is, in Fact, a Neurological Condition

By James Geary | December 18, 2018

Scholastique Mukasonga on the Power and Privilege in a Loaf of Bread

By Scholastique Mukasonga | December 18, 2018

Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground

Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground

"Gorey and O’Hara were a subculture unto themselves."

By Mark Dery | December 17, 2018

Your 2019 Literary Adaptation Preview

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What Did You Read This Year That You Loved?

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Freeman's Contributors Weigh In on Their Favorite Books of 2018

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The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore

The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore

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Did Lao-Tzu and Confucius Know Each Other?

Did Lao-Tzu and Confucius Know Each Other?

The Legend of Two Masters: From a New Introduction to the Tao Te Ching

By John Minford | December 17, 2018

It's Been 25 Years Since Kurt Cobain's Last Rites, Nirvana's <em>Unplugged</em> Show

It's Been 25 Years Since Kurt Cobain's Last Rites, Nirvana's Unplugged Show

Nirvana's Legendary Acoustic Performance Aired on MTV December 16, 1993

By Lynn Crosbie | December 14, 2018

Rabih Alameddine: The Novels I Loved This Year

Rabih Alameddine: The Novels I Loved This Year

In Which the Author of The Angel of History Reveals His Favorite Book of the Year

By Rabih Alameddine | December 14, 2018

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