Questions tagged [topic-challenge]
For the site's monthly topic challenge posts, inviting users to read and ask/answer questions about specific works of literature in a specific timeframe, or for questions about these topic challenges.
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Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?
Monthly topic challenges on Lit.SE don't get a whole lot of attention. Christopher Strobbe rightfully points out that participation has been almost negligible in recent months. This is in spite of ...
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Announcing the July 2019 topic challenge: Journey to the West (西游记)
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month (+8, -3), it is time to announce the next ...
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Announcing the June 2019 topic challenge: Elizabethan Prose
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month (+6, -1), it is time to announce the next ...
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Announcing the May 2019 topic challenge: "My Uncle Napoleon"
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as April draws to a close, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the April 2019 topic challenge: Jean Rhys
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Announcing the March 2019 reading challenge: Release the Sun, by William Sears
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month (+10, -5), it is time to announce the next ...
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Announcing the February 2019 topic challenge: Miroslav Krleža
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Announcing the January 2019 topic challenge: Lu Xun
Happy new year to Literature SE!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month, it's ...
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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
For this month's challenge, we move from Turkey to the USA to focus on
the poems of Robert Hayden
suggested by BESW.
Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980) was the first African-American writer to hold the ...
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Announcing the September 2018 topic challenge: Elif Şafak
The September topic challenge is now ongoing!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as August comes to an ...
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Announcing the August 2018 Topic Challenge: Nalo Hopkinson
This summer is hot, and I hope the same for this month's topic challenge:
the works of Nalo Hopkinson
suggested by user111 (who has since left this site).
Hopkinson (Twitter handle @...
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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: "The Assault"
July has begun, and it is time to announce this month's reading challenge, which is...
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
suggested by Martin Tournoij.
What is a topic challenge?
The topic challenges ...
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Announcing the June 2018 topic challenge: Their Eyes Were Watching God
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the end of May, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! ...
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Announcing the May 2018 topic challenge: Ursula K. Le Guin
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the end of April, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! ...
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Announcing the April 2018 Topic Challenge: “Look Who's Back”
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as March nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the March 2018 Topic Challenge: the works of Michael Ende
Two days late (sorry), here's the next Literature SE topic challenge: our first author-based challenge!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of ...
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Announcing the February 2018 Topic Challenge: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
After a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period (because apparently virtual hats and topic challenges are too much fun to have all at the same time), Lit.SE topic challenges are back!
In ...
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Announcing the November 2017 reading challenge: "Tower of Secrets"
As October nears its end, it's time to announce the next month's challenge! At the time of writing this, the leading suggestion is...
Tower of Secrets, by Victor Sheymov, suggested by BESW.
To provide ...
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Announcing the October 2017 Topic Challenge: "A Grain of Wheat", by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as September nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the September 2017 Topic Challenge: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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Promote the topic challenges across SE
I wish I'd known about the topic challenge Icelandic Sagas when it happened. Likewise, I'm sure there are people that are interested in some of the current challenges. Is there any way these ...
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Announcing the August 2017 Topic Challenge: “Sophie's World”
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as July nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge!...
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Announcing the July 2017 Topic Challenge: "I Am a Cat"
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a clear winner as June nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout ...
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Announcing the June 2017 topic challenge: The SEA is Ours
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, May is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout June 2017, ...
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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, April is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout May 2017,...
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Announcing the April 2017 Topic Challenge: "Hard to Be a God"
After the support gained here for the idea of regular topic challenges on Literature as a way of hopefully broadening our cultural scope, a new post was set up here to gather suggestions for specific ...
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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here! [duplicate]
A few days ago, I asked about starting up reading challenges, with a particular goal in mind. Many of our questions are about the same authors, the same stories, the same genres, the same cultures. ...
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Do we want something akin to topic challenges for books outside our bailiwick, to help alleviate the book diversity problem?
Our site's growing a bit of a diversity problem. Most of us have read many of the same books, and so many of the questions we get are... about those books specifically. The top site tags betrays this ...
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