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    Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

     
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    Family Histories

    Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

    By John Seabrook  June 11, 2025
    Physics

    The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

    By Alec Nevala-Lee  June 11, 2025
    Black History

    To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

    By A'Lelia Bundles  June 11, 2025
    The Earth

    On the Destruction of the Deep Earth as a Destruction of the Self

    By Justin Hocking  June 11, 2025
    American History

    How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

    By Zaakir Tameez  June 11, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

    By Arianne Edmonds  June 11, 2025
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    David Means has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

    By Brittany Allen  June 10, 2025
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    Some resources to help out neighbors, immigrants, and protestors in LA.

    By James Folta  June 10, 2025
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    Dad Books: a flowchart.

    A Father's Day flowchart.

    By Brittany Allen  June 11, 2025
    True Crime

    Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

    By Caroline Fraser  June 10, 2025
    Inspiration

    Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

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    The Hub

    Omar Hamad in Gaza:
    “I once wrote with ink, today I write with ashes.”

    By Omar Hamad  June 9, 2025
    On Race

    Bad Curls, Bad Character: The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

    Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

    By Sarah Gold McBride  June 9, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

    By Jaha Nailah Avery  June 9, 2025
    Creativity

    From Rock Star to Writer: On the Second Careers of Some of Your Favorite Musicians

    By Leila Sales  June 9, 2025
    American Poetry

    On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

    By Susan Gubar  June 9, 2025
    Literary Magazines

    First Impressions: 15 Years of The Common Through Its Covers

    Kei Lim Talks to Gabriele Wilson About the Process Behind Crafting the Magazine's Visual Identity

    By Kei Lim  June 9, 2025
    Displacement

    Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

    By Hala Alyan  June 9, 2025
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    “Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

    By Erica Stern  June 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

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    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Joan Didion’s Privacy, Writers Beware, and Wes Anderson

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    Historical Fiction

    Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

    By Aram Mrjoian  June 6, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

    By Nan Z. Da  June 10, 2025
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