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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.
The latest comment by a moderator says:
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.
As most of ...
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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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Has anyone done a thorough check of the [symbolism] tag's usage? Should we?
At the time of writing, this site's 11th largest tag (with over 200 questions) is symbolism. This is way larger than, say, allusions with 71 questions or allegory with 15 questions. Stay tuned to ...
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Announcing the December 2024 – January 2025 topic challenge: Juan Rulfo
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The Internet Archive suffered a DDOS and their password database may have been compromised
I know many people here rely on the Internet Archive to source books for quotes, but they have been undergoing a DDOS attack and password hashes may have been compromised. If you haven't reused the ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2024
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Announcing the November – December 2024 topic challenge: James Baldwin
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A small issue about review queue
When a post is somebody's first answer and at the same time happens to be a late answer, this will appear in both First Answer and Late Answer review queue. So you will have to click twice only to ...
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Announcing the October–November 2024 topic challenge: Gabriela Mistral
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Announcing the September–October 2024 topic challenge: Svetlana Alexievich
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Burninate the "biography" tag
The usage guidance for biography says: "Questions about biographies, i.e. publications that provide a detailed description of a person's life." But the questions using this tag are all over ...
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How might I contact a Member?
How might I contact a Member who has made unwelcome Edits on one of my Posts, preferably in private with no suggestion of complaint?
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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd 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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Announcing the August–September 2024 topic challenge: August Wilson
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Announcing the July–August 2024 topic challenge: Maryse Condé
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How (if at all) to handle "does X exist?" type questions?
We have a clear policy that recommendation questions, including open-ended list questions, are firmly off-topic. That means asking for "what are all the examples of X", where X is some ...
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Announcing the June–July 2024 topic challenge: Thomas Middleton
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