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Who chooses the poems featured on the New York City subway? Meet the people behind Poetry in Motion . | Lit Hub Design

Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur women artists in fiction . | Lit Hub Art

Fake news, far-right propaganda, exaggerated crowd sizes, a squabbling left. Sound familiar? Welcome to 1930s Berlin . | Lit Hub History

Tyrannosaurus rex (because you obviously want to know). | Lit Hub Science

Enda O’Doherty on the assassination of iconic socialist Jean Jaurès , who tried to keep France out of World War I. | Lit Hub History

What do Heliand and Beowulf have to do with the development of musical notation? “Today the lines look like prose, forming a continuous text with no hint of structure in the layout and no telltale end rhymes to interrupt the flow.…