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Announcing the June 2019 topic challenge: Elizabethan Prose

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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here!

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

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What do we think about story identification?

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

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List of bounties with no deadline

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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2019

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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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Why does Literature have a Tumblr blog?

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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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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2018

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What do we think about basic [meaning] questions?

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Care needed over the “too broad” close reason

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Announcing the January 2019 topic challenge: Lu Xun

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Assuming manga identification is on-topic, is this community okay being referred as an alternative resource on Anime & Manga SE?

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I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?

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I couldn't comment on your site because my rating was below 50

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Announcing the December 2018 reading challenge: Darcie Little Badger

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2018: a year in moderation

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Can we call the [scansion] tag [metre]/[meter] instead?

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Am I allowed to use other q and a sites?

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How do I ask homework questions on Literature Stack Exchange? [duplicate]

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Announcing the November 2018 topic challenge: the Kalevala

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Are questions about music on-topic (part 2)?

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Tagging on short stories that are part of collections

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Announcing the October 2018 Topic Challenge: Robert Hayden

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Should we be using comments as substitutes for answers?

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Are questions about translations in general on-topic?

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Does Oral-Literature count as literature here?

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Add a standard migration path to Writers.SE and ELL.SE

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2018

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Announcing the September 2018 topic challenge: Elif Şafak

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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2018

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Announcing the August 2018 Topic Challenge: Nalo Hopkinson

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Should we assume that questions about a book spoil that book, or should we use spoiler markup?

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Are songs and poems on-topic?

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Should tags for genres and other literary terms consistently be in singular form?

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Do either/both of these two questions fall under our “recommendations” close reason?

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

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Kill the zombies (unanswered questions)

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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: “The Assault”

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How can I access a reply/comment on a deleted question?

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