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How Heated Rivalry Imagines a More Inclusive NHL

Daniel Gawthrop on the Explosive Popularity of the Queer Hockey Phenomenon
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Isabel Allende on Finding the Freedom to Write

The House of the Spirits Started Out as a Letter to Allende’s Grandfather
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Emily McBride on Maternal Mental Health and the Lindsay Clancy Trial

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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Revisiting Vikram Chandra’s Ode to the Art of Human Coding in the Age of AI

Tobias Carroll Talks to the Author of Geek Sublime About the Ubiquity of Vibe Coding

Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework

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Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

By Ed Simon

On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone

By Simon Warrack

The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record

By Emerson Whitney

“Teaching Speech,” a Poem by Laura Kolbe

By Laura Kolbe

How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed

By Caroline Eubanks

Does Evil Exist (and How Do We Recognize It?)

By Susan Neiman

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Going Inside the Board Book with Jon Klassen

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Iceland Noir: A Roundtable Discussion

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

By Gabe Bullard

On Falling Out of Love With Moscow

By Svetlana Satchkova

On the Orientalism and Imperial Gaze of Western Horror Films

By Youssef Rakha

The War on Terror Through the Eyes of Queer Afghan Refugees

By Steven W. Thrasher

Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States

By Sun Yung Shin

Could this James Baldwin typewriter be an okay use of AI?

By James Folta

This Week in Literary History: John Keats Writes “To Autumn”

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