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    Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

    Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

     
    By Maris Kreizman  December 12, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 12, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 12, 2024
    Children's Literature

    Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 11, 2024
    Literary Heroes

    Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

    By Nathan Deuel  December 11, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

    By David S. Cho  December 11, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Best of 2024

    The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 167 Best Book Covers of 2024

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024

    Because If You Only Read What Everyone Else is Reading...

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 10, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

    By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Paul McCartney! Hannah Arendt’s poetry! “Paradise Lost”! 15 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 10, 2024
    Best Books of 2024

    17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

    Aliens, Magic, Scares, and More

    By Drew Broussard  December 9, 2024
    Mexican Literature

    Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

    By Merve Emre  December 9, 2024
    Poetry

    Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

    By Literary Hub  December 9, 2024
    Motherhood

    Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

    By Janet Manley  December 6, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

    With Drew Broussard, Calvin Kasulke, Jonny Diamond, and James Folta

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 6, 2024
    Gaza

    Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

    By Susan Abulhawa  December 6, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Best Audiobooks of 2024

    By AudioFile Magazine  December 6, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  December 6, 2024
    The Hub

    Why can’t we be kind? (A Pollyanna’s case for the nice review.)

    By Brittany Allen  December 5, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

    By Calvin Kasulke  December 5, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  December 5, 2024
    On Reading

    Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

    By Orlando Reade  December 10, 2024
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