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There’s No Place For Joy in Today’s Moscow

By Sergei Lebedev  January 20, 2016
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The Story of Segregation, One Photo at a Time

By Lit Hub Photography  January 18, 2016
Essay

The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing

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History

A Brief, Wondrous History of Arabic Literature

By Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey  December 11, 2015
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Bette Howland: The Tale of a Forgotten Genius

By A.N. Devers  December 4, 2015
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Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

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Behind the Madness of the Salem Witch Hunt

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A Literary History of Witches

By Jess Bergman  October 30, 2015
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A Literary History of Whales

By Blair Beusman  October 16, 2015
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In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
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By Tara Bray Smith  October 14, 2015
Biography

A Woman Alone in China

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The Children of Chernobyl, In Their Own Words

By Svetlana Alexievich  October 13, 2015
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Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library

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By Travis McDade  October 8, 2015
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By Leslie Pietrzyk  October 5, 2015
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By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 1, 2015
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By Debarati Sanyal  September 28, 2015
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