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On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice

M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture
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Claire Vaye Watkins on Writing a Love Letter to the Mojave Desert

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Yellow Pine
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This Week in Literary History:
O. Henry is Released from Prison

“If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.”
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A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers

Henry Power Considers Theories on the Authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey

“The Romantics,” a Poem by Maya C. Popa

By Maya C. Popa

How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jesse Waggoner

A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers

By Antonio Romani

Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier)

By April Dávila

Why We Need More Woman-Centric Retellings of The Odyssey

By Mary Helen Specht

What Romance Novels Taught Me About Writing Literary Fiction

By Rowan Beaird

How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism

By Emily Eakin

Sheila Heti on Talking to Everyone at Once

By The Critic and Her Publics

A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age

By Fiona Sampson

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How Leprosy Was Used as a Weapon Against Hawaii’s Indigenous Population

By Oliver Basciano

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

By Lucy Schiller

Chef Nephi Craig on the Power and Importance of Preserving Native Cuisines

By Nephi Craig

There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel

By Steven W. Thrasher

Why PEN America Will Not Defend You Against Anti-BDS Legislation

By Dinaw Mengestu

Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey

By Rose Smith

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 20, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Psychological Thrillers of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

Seicho Matsumoto's A Quiet Place Is a Dark Fairy-Tale of Post-War Japan

By Pico Iyer

20 Speculative Thrillers to Get You Through the Rest of 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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

By Teddy Wayne

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

By Jack Parlett

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

By David Baerwald

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

By Matthew Wolfe

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

By Megan Marshall

Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash?

By Simon Paré-Poupart

Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires

By Zach St. George

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

By Jo Scott-Coe

The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event

By Sophia Smith Galer