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Announcing the October–November 2021 topic challenge: Jorge Amado

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Literature is graduating on December 16th!

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Please include descriptions of your images

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Announcing the November–December 2021 topic challenge: The Decameron

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How do I ask a question about literature that I don't know exists, but which the people answering it do, without the question being "open ended"?

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How do I tag questions properly?

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

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What are high-quality free online resources for literary research? [duplicate]

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Announcing the August–September 2021 topic challenge: Munshi Premchand

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Announcing the September–October 2021 topic challenge: Belarusian Literature

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Announcing the December 2021 – January 2022 topic challenge: Maltese literature

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New Literature SE Topic Challenge Suggestions Thread

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Should questions that post images of text instead of transcribing them be closed?

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List of bounties with no deadline

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How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts?

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Submit your literature reviews to our Tumblr!

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Should we embrace non-Googlers?

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2021

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Do we want accepted answers on our site to be unpinned from the top?

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What do we think about answers-in-comments for recommendation questions?

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Announcing the July–August 2021 topic challenge: Magda Szabó

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Tag for Old English literature

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Announcing the June–July 2021 topic challenge: Old English literature

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Do we want to tag questions by the titles of books (part 2)?

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Picking up my diamond once again

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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2021

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Announcing the May–June 2021 topic challenge: the Mahabharata and its adaptations

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Spoiler feature

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Announcing the April–May 2021 topic challenge: Gargantua and Pantagruel

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How do I add links into comments?

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Is 'Did Eric Clapton name his dog after Dr. Dolittle's Pooch?' on-topic for a literature site?

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Audience-specific texts for our "recommendation request" custom close reason

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What kinds of non-work-specific literary-device questions are on-topic?

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Are questions about translations in general on-topic?

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Tags for both [publishing] and [publication]?

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Should the [character-analysis] tag be used to ask about physical traits?

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Are questions about war books, detective stories, or thrillers accepted here?

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Replace [narrator] tag with [point-of-view]?

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Let's choose an example question for the Tour (restrictions can be lifted)

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Would a question about how science writers/journalists deal with a particular misnomeric technical term be on-topic at Literature?

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Announcing the March–April 2021 topic challenge: Mem and Zin (Mam û Zîn)

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Are questions about authors on-topic?

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How should we deal with authors who use pseudonyms?

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How should we tag questions about song lyrics?

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A Question about ‘List Questions’

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2017

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