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Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump
Rob Spillman Worries About the Growing Specter of Self-Censorship
Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage
Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family
Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole
Erling Kagge on the Early Years of Polar Exploration and the Timeless Phenomenon of Human Hubris
What Our First and Last Words Reveal About the Way We Express Ourselves
Michael Erard Explores the Science Behind What We Say at the Very Beginning and End of Our Lives
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Her books for adults are rich and complex, revealing the stickiness of human coexistence.”
Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back
Ann Goldstein: “Even if the world has changed, her characters’ struggles with becoming themselves continue to be familiar.”
Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done
Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities
The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Niall Williams, Mary Oliver, Muriel Spark, and Others
Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction
A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife
Larissa Pham on Baking, Community and Navigating Societal Expectations of Heteronormativity
If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star
The Author of “Live Fast” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne
Megan Marshall on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Family, Edmund Spenser, and Biographical Lies
Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia
David Levering Lewis on the Eternal Questions of Race and Power Surrounding the American National Narrative
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