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Why Jane Austen Adaptations Just Keep Coming—And We Keep Watching

Lauren W. Westerfield on Privilege and Money in Austen’s Works
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No Stars, or: Are We Reviewing Ourselves to Death?

Lucie Britsch on the Importance of Making Art for Art’s Sake
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What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

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What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club

Kristopher Jansma on Why More Male Readers Should Start Book Clubs

Chronicling Millenial Malaise With Andrew Martin

By Sam Axelrod

Six Books (and One Film) About Bad Fathers

By Victoria Shorr

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

By Teddy Wayne

The Stories Our Mothers (Never) Told Us: Alice Martin Writing About Family Archives

By Alice Martin

Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

By Anna North

Jung Yun on Writing a Post-9/11 Cruise Novel

By Jane Ciabattari

Matters of the Spirit: A Pastor, a Noblewoman and a Mysterious Bout of Melancholy

By Christopher Clark

A Place For Everyone to Read: Opening a “Cultural Treasure” in Philadelphia

By Gaby Iori

Are Economists, in Fact, the Unacknowledged Poets of the World

By Ed Simon

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James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

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Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

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Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

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Growing Up Alawite in Assad’s Syria

By Loubna Mrie

How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America

By Matthew Avery Sutton

What to Check Out in Literary Baltimore While You’re in Town For AWP

By Gaby Iori

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

By Virginia Marshall