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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2023
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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What sorts of identification questions about nonfiction works are on-topic?
I voted to close the identification-question Book about Tantric Sex Written by an Australian Couple that uses the terms 'Lingam' and 'Yoni' on the grounds that the work in question did ...
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Announcing the December 2023 – January 2024 topic challenge: Henrik Ibsen
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Is the [writing-process] tag worth it?
The tag writing-process is for questions about the writing process of a particular author or a particular piece of literature. It currently has 5 extant questions but also 23 closed/deleted questions ...
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Announcing the November–December 2023 topic challenge: Alberto Moravia
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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2023
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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Announcing the October–November 2023 topic challenge: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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What should be our standard for closing identification-request questions as duplicates?
This question is motivated by the following three questions:
(A) Lawyer sacrifices life for his activist friend by taking his place in prison
(B) Can't remember book title: a journalist converses ...
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Which language tag should we use for troubadour poetry?
On Literature.SE we have language tags for non-English literarture. However, I'm not sure about the language tag we should use for troubadour literature. According to Wikipedia, troubadour poetry is ...
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Announcing the September–October 2023 topic challenge: Sarojini Naidu
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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2023
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Timeline of Literature moderators
Inspired by Timeline of Parenting moderators, this post is intended to record the history of Literature SE diamond moderator teams over time. To make it an actual "question":
Who has ...
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Special thanks to Mithical for their role in helping to resolve the recent moderation strike
For those that aren't aware, our very own Mithical was instrumental in helping to resolve the recent dispute (and subsequent strike) regarding moderating ChatGPT content on the Stack Exchange network. ...
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Announcing the July–August 2023 topic challenge: Jamaica Kincaid
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Why do we have to edit at least 6 characters?
Very recently, I clicked the edit button on a question.
It had a misspelling of just one letter.
But after I clicked the save my edit button, an error message popped up saying the edit should at least ...
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