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Evil Enters From the Left: On Pantomime and the Classic Stage

Elly Griffiths Remembers Learning the Feel of Real Drama

September 18, 2017  By Elly Griffiths   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Why Send Whale Song Into Space?

On Carl Sagan, Humpback Whales, and Alien Intelligences

September 15, 2017  By Margret Grebowicz   Posted In  Features  Nature  News and Culture 
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Swallowing Mercury

Wioletta Greg (Trans. Eliza Marciniak)

“That spring, my father got hold of an excavator and widened the pond behind our house.”

September 15, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

"When it's difficult, what keeps me going is the possibility of joy."

September 15, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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A Journey to the Heart of Old Japan

Kenny Fries Seeks Some Peace Alongside All the Gods on the Island

September 15, 2017  By Kenny Fries   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Travel 
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The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created Curious George

"Theirs Was a Life of Exile and, Thereafter, Self-Invention"

September 15, 2017  By Nicholas Delbanco   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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To Heal or To Hurt? On Being a Military Medic in Iraq

Jon Kerstetter Makes Impossible Decisions in the Iraqi Desert

September 15, 2017  By Jon Kerstetter   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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Writing Between Countries and Across Borders: A Conversation

Jamaica Kincaid, Marlon James, Valeria Luiselli, and Others

September 15, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric

Thomas S. Mullaney on Theories of Chinese Modernization

September 15, 2017  By Thomas S. Mullaney   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of “Survivor”

“There is No Payment That Could Begin to Make Up for Any of It”

September 15, 2017  By Elizabeth Rosner   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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T.C. Boyle

“What he couldn’t have imagined, even in his bleakest assessments of the future, was the boredom.”

September 14, 2017  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

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Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

On Marilynne Robinson and Finding Comfort in Domestic Rituals

September 14, 2017  By Kristen Martin   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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September 14, 2017  By Jennet Conant   Posted In  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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On the Importance of Sending American Booksellers Abroad

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The Little Known, Much Loved Cookbook That Was Ahead of Its Time

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