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    Documentaries

    How Nonfiction Writing and Documentary Filmmaking Curate the Truth

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    The Hub

    This summer, read a screenplay.

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    Read E. L. Doctorow’s review of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 6, 2023
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    These are the best book covers of 2022 you (probably) haven’t seen.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2023
    Queer Lit

    Creating Safe Spaces: On Writing Queer Romance

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    Creativity

    From Music to Fiction: How Artistic Callings Shift Across Generations

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    The Cosmic Library

    On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

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    Patrick Dean on America’s “First” Great Naturalist, Mark Catesby

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    Bill Boggs, Satirist of America’s Addiction to Celebrity, Drugs, Sex, and Food

    By Keen On  July 6, 2023
    Criticism

    How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America

    By Brian K. Goodman  July 5, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Jake Skeets on Diné Food Traditions and the Relationship Between Food and Community

    By Emergence Magazine  July 5, 2023
    Civil Rights

    Chronicle of a Battle Foretold: How One Town Went to War Over Desegregation

    By Rachel Louise Martin  July 5, 2023
    The Lives of Women

    Women on the Verge: The Jazz Age Origins of Burnout

    By Marsha Gordon  July 5, 2023
    Aging

    Showing Myself in My Author Photo—Gray Hair and All

    By Caitlin Shetterly  July 5, 2023
    Read Smart

    Wade Davis on the British Desire to Conquer the “Third Pole,” Mount Everest

    By Read Smart  July 5, 2023
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    Nate Halverson on the Chilling Plot to Grab the World’s Food and Water Resources

    By Keen On  July 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Jesse Kavadlo Puts Don DeLillo into Context

    By History of Literature  July 5, 2023
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    Peace Adzo Medie on Violence Against Women in Africa

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    The Hub

    World Editions publishing has been bought out by a senior staff member.

    By Janet Manley  June 30, 2023
    Cliche

    Before They Were Cliches: On the Origins of 8 Worn Out Idioms

    By Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss  June 30, 2023
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    By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2023
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