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Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws
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From the Archives: Kiki Petrosino and Jess Walter on All the President's Shakespeare
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Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West
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Remembering Alice Munro: Jonny Diamond on His Mother and the Great Canadian Writer
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How We Talk About Cancer: S.L. Wisenberg on Kate Middleton and the Language of the Big C
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David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse
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David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse
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Ivy Pochoda on Iowa Basketball Star Caitlin Clark and Women Athletes in Popular Culture
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The Road From Belhaven: Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future
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‘They Want What We Have’: Matt Gallagher on Supporting Ukrainians' Struggle for Liberation
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American Fiction: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on the Joy, Pathos, and Complexity of Black Experience in the Oscar-Nominated Film
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AWP 2024 Preview: Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque
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‘What is History?’: Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined
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Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism
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Bookstores Against Bans: Lauren Groff on Opening The Lynx in Florida
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Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the Model Minority Myth: Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential Candidates
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Holiday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship
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The Best Books Machine: Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not
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The Free and the Freed: Tracy K. Smith on Liberty
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Chicago in Verse: Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown
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American Farce: Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf**k
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American Precariat: Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class
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Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now
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Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict
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Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and Then
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Librarians Against Book Bans: Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship
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Art Under Fire in Ukraine: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding as the Fighting Drags on
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The African Coups: Leila Aboulela on Why They Happen, and the Violence in Sudan
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Georgia’s Fani Willis Takes on Trump: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment
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Is Kansas the Future of Press Censorship?: Sherman Smith on the Police Raid at a Small-Town Newspaper
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Lit Hub’s American Holiday: Novelist Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now
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How Progressives Win: Journalist Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today
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The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children
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X Marks the Spot: Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter
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SCOTUS vs. MFA: Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom
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In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy
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The Kids Are at Work: Jean Kwok On Recent Efforts to Loosen Child Labor Laws and Her Years as a Child Worker in New York
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Everybody Hates Joe: Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and What He Must Do To Win Them Back
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Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film
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Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell Talks Living on a Political Mobius Strip
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Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame
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Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy
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The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting
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The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin
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Ready Player One: B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play
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Ralph Yarl, Defunding Libraries, and (Re)Writing Kansas City: José Faus, C.J. Janovy, and Desideria Mesa on the Importance of Crafting New Narratives in a Divided City
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Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike
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An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland
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Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth
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The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories
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Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror
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Iraq 20 Years After the U.S. Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed
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Remembering an American Writer: Anthony Walton on James Alan McPherson’s Essays and Legacy
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This Other Eden: Paul Harding on Imagining Our Integrated Past
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Chatbot vs. Writer: Vauhini Vara on the Perils and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence
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In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy
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Vintage Contemporaries: Dan Kois on the Joys and Sorrows of Literary New York in the 1990s and 2000s
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Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2022, with Emily Temple and Katie Yee
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