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In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

Why the Bard Would Have Approved of Contemporary Retellings

April 25, 2016  By Andrew Hartley   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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What Was Shakespeare’s Central Philosophy?

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April 25, 2016  By Ed Simon   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism 
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Hamlet, Translated into Spanglish

Ilan Stavans Offers a New Version of English Literature's Most Famous Scene

April 25, 2016  By Ilan Stavans   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  On Translation 
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Shakespeare and His Stuff

Understanding the Artist Through His Things

April 25, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  History  News and Culture 
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My Father the Song Poet

Kao Kalia Yang Comes To Understand Her Machinist Father as a Literary Force

April 25, 2016  By Kao Kalia Yang   Posted In  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Interview with a Bookstore: Bunch of Grapes

The Go-To Bookstore in Martha's Vineyard

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April 22, 2016  By Tyler Malone   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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Who Can Resist Ecstasy?: Mourning Prince in San Francisco

Among a Dancing Crowd, Oscar Villalon Remembers Sneaking Into Purple Rain

April 22, 2016  By Oscar Villalon   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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First Dance: Alexander Chee on Hearing Prince for the First Time

Suburban Maine, 1983, a Song, Some Dancing...

April 22, 2016  By Alexander Chee   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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Suburban Gospel

Mark Beaver

"Sometime during that summer we began thinking of ourselves as Prince and Apollonia."

April 22, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Features 
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Prince, 1958-2016

Alexander Chee, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Naomi Jackson, and More Remember an American Genius

April 22, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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Surviving a Long Alaskan Winter with Prince

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Finding Her People, the Prince Fanatics

April 22, 2016  By Kaitlyn Greenidge   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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Prince: Finding Joy Outside Conformity

Naomi Jackson On Finding Permission to Be Herself

April 22, 2016  By Naomi Jackson   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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Prince: The Origin Story

When Ten-Year-Old Prince Roger Nelson Danced Onstage with James Brown

April 22, 2016  By Michaelangelo Matos   Posted In  Music  News and Culture 
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LitHub Daily: April 22, 2016

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Alexei Nikitin, trans. Anne Marie Jackson

“My e-mail address is istemi@ukr.net. Whenever I give it out over the telephone the other person is sure to ask ‘Is what?’ ‘Istemi is a name,’ I say and spell it out, ‘I-S-T-E—ISTEMI.’”

April 22, 2016  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel 
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On My Abnormally Quiet Jewish Family

What It's Like to Grow Up With a "No Kvetching" Rule

April 22, 2016  By Rebecca Schiff   Posted In  Features 
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How to Draw a Dragon

On the Design of Lian Hearn’s The Tale of Shikanoko

April 22, 2016  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Features 
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Voices from the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

Edward Snowden, Aminatta Forna, Mona Eltahawy, and Tom Stoppard

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