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When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

Lerone Martin on Segregation Aboard the Southern Railway
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Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?

Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who’s Always Had a in Camera Hand
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Happiness is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom

James Romm Translates Classical Greek Poetry
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Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Mothman Is My Boyfriend Author McKayla Coyle has Some Ideas

William Kentridge: That Which I Have Drawn

By William Kentridge

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

By Geoffrey D. Morrison

On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family

By Deborah Lutz

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos on Honoring Her Husband’s Literary Legacy

By Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

By Jane Ciabattari

How Middle Management Made the Modern World

By Henry Snow

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

By Ella Frances Sanders

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

By Suzanne Berne

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Argentina Through the Eyes of Polish Writer Witold Gombrowicz

By Mercedes Halfon

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is Published.

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Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

By Christiana Spens

The Surprising Similarities Between the Kardashians and WWE

By MJ Corey

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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What Our Ideas About Ugliness Reveal About Our Anxieties Surrounding Gender

By Stephanie Fairyington

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Crime Reads

May 9, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of May 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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State of the Crime Novel, Part 2: Issues and Recommendations

By Molly Odintz

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language

By Clara Hillis

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in May 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing

By Lauren Groff

“Be the Change.” On the Misattributed Origins of a Popular Slogan

By Benoit Denizet-Lewis

John Cougar Mellencamp Will Fight You: On the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rise of a Combative Heartland Leftist

By Erin Osmon

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen

On Humanity’s Earliest Attempts
to Make a Home

By Stefan Al

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

By Literary Hub

What Erdoğan’s Rule Reveals About the Current State of Western Democracies

By Suzy Hansen