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Announcing the June–July 2025 topic challenge: Rohingya Literature
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Announcing the May–June 2025 topic challenge: Countee Cullen
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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2025
Here's the latest instalment in our quarterly best-post collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase ...
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Should we answer questions about what page number something is on?
Recently someone asked the following question: "In The Fountainhead, on exactly what page does Keating take credit for Roark’s designs?" They did provide a specific ISBN number, which avoids ...
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Rename [story-identification] meta tag to [identification-request] to match the main site tag name
Per Proposal: rename [story-identification] to [identification-request], the [story-identification] tag was renamed to [identification-request] in 2020.
However, the meta-tag is still named [story-...
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Announcing the April – May 2025 topic challenge: Bessie Head
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Reopen request 26273
The question "Symbolism of the name Red Rose in Chapter 8 of The Scarlet Letter...?" is closed as off-topic.
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All right, that's enough pointless ...
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Announcing the March – April 2025 topic challenge: Chingiz Aitmatov
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Announcing the February – March 2025 topic challenge: Naim Frashëri
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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2024
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to ...
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When and how do you re-read a book you've already read?
I'm curious about people's re-reading habits.
What was the most recent book you re-read?
How do you decide whether and when to re-read a text?
Why do you re-read a book? What draws you back to a book ...
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What should be our policy on spoiler formatting, and on editing it into/out of posts?
This post is inspired by a recent edit war in which an answer which contained the phrase "spoiler alert" but did not contain any actual spoiler formatting (using the >! syntax) repeatedly ...
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What was the best book you read or your greatest literary discovery in 2024?
As the year 2024 draws to a close, I think it's a good time to look at what we've read in the last twelve months and share what we think is the best book we read or the greatest literary discovery we ...
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Announcing the January–February 2025 topic challenge: Jhumpa Lahiri
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