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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been calling for a foreign—read: US-led—military intervention in her country for years. Since at least 2019 she has insisted that using outside force to overthrow the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was the only way to restore democracy to Venezuela. […]

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In the opening of Anna Rollins’ debut memoir, Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up a Good Girl, Rollins is in the ICU with a sick child, but all she can think about is how she’s going to work off the pasta she’d eaten the night before. At the time, Rollins “knew it was a […] The post Evangelical Purity Culture Affects Us All appeared first on Electric Literature .

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“Those who liberated Damascus write the Syrian success story the way American success stories are written.” Golan Haji on art and letters in the new Syria, translated and introduced by Fady Joudah. | Lit Hub Criticism Is art the last

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These eight eye-opening memoirs explore the damage of purity culture—in the Evangelical Church and beyond.

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Here are the results of the survey: these are your most anticipated queer books of 2026, from romance to literary fiction to sci-fi!

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Heated Rivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams are rival fae princes in a romantasy audiobook series—plus more book news!

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Well hello there, stranger! I’ve missed you. Welcome back to the most scintillating, compelling, thrilling, and hands-down drunkest literary advice column this side of the lord’s internet. That’s right, we’re back with another exciting installment of Am I the Literary

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Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes James Cahill on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The School of Night, Becca Rothfeld on C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score, Niela Orr on Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs, Toby Litt on Elizabeth McCracken’s A Long

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The idea of the “rock god” was born in 1971 in an article in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, a newspaper in Illinois, USA. But David Bowie had long believed in such beings, and now he was about to make one, become

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“But there is another situation in which imagination enjoys a similar preeminence, not as the only mental faculty which is alert but as the only one which is free; a situation in which other forces are certainly awake, but in

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None of this is supposed to be easy. Not writing, not life, not love. Louise Glück’s debut, Firstborn, was published in 1968. One poem that didn’t make the cut was “The House on Marshland.” Glück said it was “terrible.” She

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Beyond the stories passed down to us through ancient Rome, of Dido and Hannibal and the conquest of the north African coast, the facts about the foundation of Carthage are only slightly less dramatic. A trail of early ­Phoenician-­­speaking merchants

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