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“Art can and should keep up with the times—the local times.” Isabella Hammad on the revolutionary power of Palestinian theater. | Lit Hub Art
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23 new books to check out this week. | The Hub
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Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on seeing his father’s face on the cover of his new memoir. | Lit Hub Design
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Daniel M. Lavery on doling advice to strangers as Dear Prudence: “An unexpected benefit of this assembly-line approach to offering advice is that one’s own judgment becomes cheap.” | Lit Hub
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Danger in the heartland: When the most powerful man in Indiana was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. | Lit Hub History
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Chad L. Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois, Gold Star Mothers, and the symbolic battles of WWI. | Lit Hub History
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Looks like BuzzFeed is quietly publishing AI-generated articles. Noor Al-Sibai and Jon Christian consider the implications. | Futurist
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“Whether an English department is thriving or dwindling, the institutional approach generally remains the same: direct resources elsewhere.” A letter from a thriving English department on the brink. | New York Review of Books
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Why is everyone reading Norman Rush’s 1991 novel, Mating? | New York Times
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“You can’t get a good bagel in Philip Roth’s hometown.” And other revelations from the recent Philip Roth Festival. | Esquire
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“You’re welcome here, today and all the other days.” How Ann Patchett opened the doors of her bookstore to those affected by the Covenant school shooting. | Yahoo News
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