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The Pantomime of a Southern Chameleon Book Review: A Chameleon in Search of Self

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The Foreign and the Familiar—How Translation Brings Other Worlds Closer

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Why Do We Keep Imagining Ourselves Inside Whales?

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5 Ways Steinbeck’s East of Eden Shatters the American Dream

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Sabrina Ramjeet

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Why Are We So Obsessed with Men Written by Women?

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Ten Ways Guillermo del Toro Changed Frankenstein—and Why it Still Works

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

Behind the Scenes of the World’s Only Centennial Gatsby Art Collection

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

The Strange Story Behind the Creation of Madeline

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Art

Painter Leah Giberson’s Gatsby-Inspired Collection Asks Us to Dig Deep for Truth

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

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The Magical History of Grimoires

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Springsteen Wrote the Great American Novel—He Just Sang It Instead

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Can Hot People Play Monsters? The Hot-Scary Matrix

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Sarah Grace Acker

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A Former AI Director on What Mary Shelley Got Horribly Right

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Why Do Gillian Flynn’s Women Make Us So Uncomfortable?

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“I’ve Been Lucy:” 5 Tell Me Lies Moments Every Woman Who’s Faced a Toxic Relationship Knows

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Jacqueline Bond

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Healing Reads for Tell Me Lies’ Characters—and Everyone Watching

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The Bond & Grace Team

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17 No-Fluff Writing Lessons from Audrey Ingram: How to Go from Idea → Ink → Published

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Jacqueline Bond

Literature

Lightning, AI, and Art Collide on the Frankenstein Art Novel’s New Cover by Sam Gulliver

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

Why New York Academy of Art Students Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Art Novels

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

7 Reading Lessons from the Man Behind 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

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Jacqueline Bond

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Does The Secret Garden have a “Wilde” Side?

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Deborah Smith Douglas

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Announcing Lit Society’s Exclusive Tell Me Lies Watch-Along with Emma Roberts

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The Bond & Grace Team

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The Clique Series Is Back—Here’s What to Know Before the New Sequel

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Sarah Grace Acker

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The 10 Most Nostalgic Books & Series that Mark Every Decade

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Jacqueline Bond

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The Scholastic Book Fair: Magic, Memory, and Making It Better

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Jacqueline Bond

Literature

Walking in Jane Austen’s Footsteps: A Chawton Travelogue

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Hannah Thompson

Art

12 Ways We’re Proving the Art World Shouldn’t Be a Members-Only Club

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

The Secret Garden’s Hidden Roots—and Deeper Magic

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Deborah Smith Douglas

Lifestyle

Plates & Pages: On Creating Literary Wine Dinners

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Literature

How Classic Lit Forbode—and Freed—Women’s Deepest Desires

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Lifestyle

Reading as Currency: The Rise of the Literary It Girl

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Sarah Grace Acker

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Our Family Tree Was Made of Books

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The Most Heartbreaking Anne of Green Gables Book Is Also the Most Forgotten

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Art

Beyond Tea and Talk—Why Europe’s History of Female-Led Salons Still Matters

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

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Tiny Protagonists, Big Feelings

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Jacqueline Bond

Lifestyle

The Value of Our Teachers

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Jacqueline Bond

Interviews

Behind the Scenes of Lit Society by Bond & Grace—A Space for Whole Selves and Big Ideas

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

Is the American Dream Dead in The Great Gatsby?

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In All Fours and Babygirl, the Watching Woman Reclaims Voyeurism

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Jennifer O'Shea

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The Problem with Gatsby’s Jazz-Filled Playlist

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

History

Fitzgerald Saw Through American Advertising—And So Should the Women it Exploits

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

Plagiarism Begins at Home: Did Scott Steal Zelda’s Writing?

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Lifestyle

Raising Sons in a Changing World: A Literary Reflection

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Jacqueline Bond

Lifestyle

Becoming Again: What Preparing for My Second Baby Is Teaching Me

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Jacqueline Bond

Art

What Michelangelo’s Unfinished Works Teach Us About Trying

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Literature

Is Jay Gatsby White—And Why Does It Matter?

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More Than Meets the Eye: How The Outsiders Builds Empathy in Young Readers

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Bad Miracle: NOPE, Gatsby, and the Dark Side of Spectacle

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Puppies and Power in The Great Gatsby

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Was The Great Gatsby Inspired by the Modernist Art Movement?

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Lifestyle

Feels Like Summer: How an American Summer Aesthetic Was Born

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Sarah Grace Acker

Interviews

99 Years of Wisdom: Advice from My Grandma

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Jacqueline Bond

Literature

Why The Great Gatsby is More Urgent Than Ever

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History

Did Betsy Ross Really Sew the First American Flag?

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

History

Little Lady, Great War: Inside the Setting of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Literature

Future American Classics: Modern Novels We’ll be Reading for Centuries

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Lifestyle

More than Just an Object: Stories of Family Heirlooms and Generational Love

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

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Like Mother, Like Daughter: Inheritance and Identity in The Joy Luck Club

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History

The Names that Shape Us: Names, Memory, and Meaning

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Literature

The Forgotten Middle Sisters: A Closer Look at Mary Bennet and Beth March

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Lifestyle

A Letter to the Women Who Came Before Me

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Slowing Down in a Fast World: Mary Oliver’s Poetry as Presence

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Art

Artist and Mother, Morgan Jones Johnston Blooms Wildly

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

To the Women Who Shaped Us: 11 Works to Gift with Love

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

In My Family, Creative Chaos Is A Way of Life

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Literature

Love and Terror: Why We Can’t Get Enough of Horror and Romance

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Literature

Move Over Marvel—This 17th-Century English Duchess Explored the Multiverse First

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Art

Graffiti as Protest and Possibility

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

Artist, Activist, and Leader Theresa Bear Reveals What’s Worth Fighting For

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Art

Threads of Freedom: How Women Have Used Quilts to Gather, Resist, and Inspire

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Lifestyle

Notes on The Art of Hosting With Intention

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Jacqueline Bond

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Hidden Messages Inside The Hunger Games

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Fahrenheit 451 Was a Warning—We Didn’t Listen

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Art

Artworks Through the Ages Inspired by Radical Togetherness

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

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The Language of Healing: How Literature Shapes our Understanding of Sickness and Health

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Under the Red, White, and Blue: Anora and The Great Gatsby

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Notes On Finding Inner Peace When the World Feels Heavy

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Jacqueline Bond

Art

How Depression Fuels Creativity: Emotive Works from the Bond & Grace Art Collection

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Annie Lyall Slaughter

Lifestyle

Tearjerker Masterpieces for the Hopelessly Emotional

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Lifestyle

The Literary Discography of Kendrick Lamar

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Literature

What the Bible, Harry Potter, and The Odyssey Have in Common: the Reluctant Hero’s Journey

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What Jane Austen Taught Me About Love

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Jacqueline Bond

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A Feminine Rage Reading List

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Ten Unreliable Narrators We Don’t Trust

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The Novel that Keeps Predicting the Future

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Lifestyle

Entering an Era of Unbridled Emotions

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Jacqueline Bond

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God Bless Us Every One: The Political History of A Christmas Carol

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From Saintly to Seasonal: The Origins & Evolution of Santa Claus

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John in Wonderland: The Life and Art of John Tenniel

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Iconic Alices Through the Ages

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Interviews

Bond & Grace’s Secret Recipe for Making the Art Novel

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How Cold-Blooded Creatures Became Hot: The Literary History of the Vampire

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A Wednesday Addams Reading List

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An F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading List

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The Stupendous Scott: The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A Phantom of the Opera Reading List

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The Haunted History of The Phantom of the Opera

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A Brontë Sister Reading List

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History

Tokens of Love and Loss: Hair Jewelry in the Regency Era

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An Agatha Christie Reading List

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The Mysterious Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Mystery Writer

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A Mary Shelley Reading List

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