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The Complicated Emotions of Reading a Poem at the White House

Joshua Bennett on Reading “Tamara’s Opus” in Front the Obamas

March 29, 2023

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A Novel is Like a Camp: What Fiction Can Teach Us About Surviving the Slow Apocalypse

Jess Row on How We Tell Stories in a Time of Catastrophe

March 28, 2023

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Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

“There can be no fiction without appropriation. Because we fiction writers are predators too.”

March 24, 2023

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13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

(GASP)

March 23, 2023

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Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

The Pachinko Author Discusses Teaching, Her Novel in Progress, and the Desire to Make a Difference

March 22, 2023

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Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Alissa Quart on the Bootstrap Narratives of Laura Ingalls Wilder

March 20, 2023

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Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?

Ellie Broughton on the Sex Education Star’s Replanting of a Secret Garden

March 16, 2023

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On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

Bryony Lau Considers the Reinvention of the First Job Memoir

March 15, 2023

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Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

DK Nnuro on the Power of Mimicry and Subversion in the Black Literary Tradition

March 15, 2023

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30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

NBCC Board Members Review This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists

March 14, 2023

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Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

Literary Executor Theo Downes-Le Guin on What That Means For Readers, Past and Future

March 13, 2023

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9 Must-Reads for Lovers (and Haters) of The Last of Us

From the Science of Fungi to the Collapse of Civilization, a Book For Everyone!

March 10, 2023

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If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

Jenny Jackson, Editor-Turned-Debut-Author, Fears So

March 8, 2023

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72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023

Hot Tips From Local Writers

March 7, 2023

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The Real Star of North by Northwest is Cary Grant’s Suit

It's More Than a Suit. It's the Star of the Movie. And a Perfectly Indestructible Cultural Force.

March 7, 2023

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On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

“I cannot manage the cursed Oat Cake” and Other Gems About Nothing

March 6, 2023

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in March

From Carrie to Lucky Hank

March 3, 2023

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The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

A Century After Ernest Shackleton’s Death, The Endurance Reveals Itself

March 3, 2023

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BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Leigh Stein Wonders Why More Book People Don’t Embrace the Publishing Juggernaut

February 13, 2023

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Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

”What these bills make clear is that the fights over the 1619 Project, at their essence, are about power.“

February 10, 2023

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

218 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 12, 2023

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The Latest

How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

Ashley Ward on the Oft-Ignored and Much-Maligned Olfactory Sense

By Ashley Ward March 29, 2023

Behind the Book Cover

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

How Jason Booher’s Uses Color to Create Light

By Jason Booher March 29, 2023

On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

“A child who feels scolded or lectured to is less apt to pay attention.”

By Leonard S. Marcus March 29, 2023

Damian Barr's Literary Salon

Kelly Link Reads from Her New Short Story Collection White Cat, Black Dog

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon March 29, 2023

American History

How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco

Lizzie Stark on the Other 1848 Rush for Riches in California

By Lizzie Stark March 29, 2023

Life in the Aftermath: Books That Explore What Happens After Things Go Wrong

Tara Conklin Recommends Novels That Hinge on the Great Before/After

By Tara Conklin March 29, 2023

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft on the Double-Edged Sword of Being "the First"

By Thresholds March 29, 2023

Baillie Gifford Prize

Divine Poetry: Katherine Rundell Shines a Light on John Donne

By Malcolm Borthwick March 29, 2023

Lit Hub Questionnaire

Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

“It’s too much to expect that your first draft will be any good.”

Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

By Literary Hub March 28, 2023

Clancy Martin on the Contradictions of Living Through Suicidal Moments

By Clancy Martin March 28, 2023

Finding Memories of a Distant Home Through Milo Toast

By Rachel Heng March 28, 2023

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

March 24, 2023 By Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

March 23, 2023 By Book Marks

Rhys Bowen on Historical Fiction and Memorable Heroines

March 29, 2023 By Molly Odintz

10 More Must-Read Alternate History Thrillers

March 29, 2023 By Josh Weiss

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