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Why I Don’t Regret the “Pornographic” Scene That Got My Book Banned

Julia Scheeres on the American Right’s Unslakable Desire to Censor Things
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Tayari Jones Still Needs To Read Anna Karenina

The Author of Kin Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
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“You Just Do Language.” Lauren Groff on Craft, Reading, and Her New Collection

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Letter From Minnesota:
The Sun Will Rise Again

Marian Hassan Finds Strength in Memories of Her Father’s Resistance

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point

By Emily Van Duyne

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

By Steven W. Thrasher

How Trotsky and Stalin, Ruthless in Their Own Ways, Absolutely Hated Each Other

By Josh Ireland

The Very First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

By Raiford Guins

A Day in the Life of an American Paperboy, c. 1974

By James Martin

The Tortoise in the Tree: A Yoruba Folktale

By Báyò Akómoláfé

The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”

By David J. Silverman

Mothering at the End of the World: Six Contemporary Novels That Center Caretaking Through Crisis

By Sarah Bruni

“Astro Mischief.” A Poem by Preeti Vangani

By Preeti Vangani

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Marina Carr on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

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How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

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Darcey Steinke on the History (and Mystery) of Migraines

By Darcey Steinke

Among the Fascists and the Nazis: How Two Women Journalists Survived the Chaos of 1930s Europe

By Julia Cooke

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

By Alex Averbuch

What The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Taught Me About Writing Conflict

By Saleem Haddad

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

February 23, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best International Crime Fiction of February 2026

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The Best Debut Novels of the Month: February 2026

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Cannibal, the Listicle

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

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Proust and the Journey of Self-Discovery

By The Cosmic Library

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

By Eunsong Kim

In Praise of Problematic Women: A Reading List of “Bad” Mothers

By Ej Dickson

Who Deserves to Be a Citizen?

By Daisy Hernández

James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists

By C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost

Letter From Minnesota: Lessons From Palestine on Surviving Occupation

By Sana Wazwaz

All of America’s Colonial Evils at Once: The Early 19th-Century Subjugation of Florida

By Jamie Holmes

This Week in Literary History: The Gutenberg Bible is Published.

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Letter From Minnesota: Lessons From Palestine on Surviving Occupation

By Sana Wazwaz