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Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux
Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the Power of the French Sociological Memoir
How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community
Prithi Kanakamedala Explores the Little Known History of 19th-Century New York City
The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic
Lisa Yaszek on the Woman Known as Francis Stevens, an Early Female Pioneer of American Genre Fiction
How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be
David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard
Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey
Christopher Brown Explores Our Complex Relationships With the Wild Creatures That Share Our Urban Space
Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer
Rachel Schwartzmann Allows Herself to Write and Live More Slowly and to Learn from Her Typos
Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Entitlement”
For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”
The Author of “Rejection” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise
What Freedom Means in Moments of Economic and Political Transformation
A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide
From David Van Reybrouck’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Revolusi”
Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child
Abi Maxwell: “This town felt so conservative, its social norms so crushing. I needed someone who would help me swim against them.”
Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse
Thomas Gebremedhin Considers Text and Subtext in the Publishing Industry
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