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Announcing the January–February 2025 topic challenge: Jhumpa Lahiri
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Announcing the March – April 2025 topic challenge: Chingiz Aitmatov
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Announcing the June–July 2025 topic challenge: Rohingya Literature
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New Literature SE Topic Challenge Suggestions Thread
Topic challenges for Literature SE were first proposed and enacted in March 2017. The motivation for these, as well as to bring our users together in a community activity of reading the same books or ...
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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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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 May–June 2025 topic challenge: Countee Cullen
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Announcing the February – March 2025 topic challenge: Naim Frashëri
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Announcing the April – May 2025 topic challenge: Bessie Head
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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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List of bounties with no deadline
One of the problems on Stack Exchange sites is that questions don't always receive good answers. While unanswered questions are easy to find, this is not the case with questions that have one or more ...
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How does one write a good question about influences?
One of the fun parts of analyzing creative works (at least, for me) is to trace the influences prior works and especially ideas have on later creators and creations.
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Guidelines for good ID questions?
I can't remember a particular story, and I would like to post an identification-request to get help finding it. What can I do to make my identification-request a successful and high-quality question?
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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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What's your favorite book?
Most people, upon confessing that they love books, are immediately met with that question about what their favorite book is. We recently shared our answers to it in chat; turns out, most of the ...
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