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Announcing the January–February 2020 topic challenge: Lin Yutang (林语堂)

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Announcing the Return of the Topic Challenges! Oct-Nov 2019: The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Etiquette for a Community Wiki Answer

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Can questions asking for list of list on-topic?

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Resignation notice

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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here!

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What would be a good timeslot for bimonthly chat sessions?

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Announcing the July 2019 topic challenge: Journey to the West (西游记)

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Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?

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What types of non-fiction are on topic?

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Guidelines for good story-id questions?

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Announcing the June 2019 topic challenge: Elizabethan Prose

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Announcing the January 2019 topic challenge: Lu Xun

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Announcing the December 2018 reading challenge: Darcie Little Badger

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Announcing the November 2018 topic challenge: the Kalevala

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Announcing the October 2018 Topic Challenge: Robert Hayden

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Announcing the September 2018 topic challenge: Elif Şafak

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Announcing the August 2018 Topic Challenge: Nalo Hopkinson

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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: “The Assault”

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Announcing the June 2018 topic challenge: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Announcing the May 2018 topic challenge: Ursula K. Le Guin

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Announcing the April 2018 Topic Challenge: “Look Who's Back”

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Announcing the February 2018 Topic Challenge: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”

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Announcing the November 2017 reading challenge: “Tower of Secrets”

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Announcing the October 2017 Topic Challenge: “A Grain of Wheat”, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Announcing the September 2017 Topic Challenge: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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Announcing the August 2017 Topic Challenge: “Sophie's World”

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Announcing the July 2017 Topic Challenge: “I Am a Cat”

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Announcing the June 2017 topic challenge: The SEA is Ours

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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!

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Announcing the April 2017 Topic Challenge: “Hard to Be a God”

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What are some good (legal) resources for finding the text of books?

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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2019

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What is this site's policy on closing story-identifications as duplicates when they are not accepted?

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Announcing the April 2019 topic challenge: Jean Rhys

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Announcing the May 2019 topic challenge: “My Uncle Napoleon”

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What do we think about story identification?

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List of bounties with no deadline

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Announcing the March 2019 reading challenge: Release the Sun, by William Sears

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Submit your literature reviews to our Tumblr!

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Can the name of Writers.SE be changed to Writing.SE in the Help Center?

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We have a community run tumblr; here's how you can contribute

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Would a question about the philosophical underpinnings of Ozymandias be off topic?

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Announcing the February 2019 topic challenge: Miroslav Krleža

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