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On Searching For Nabokov’s Rarest Paperbacks Across America

Nina Chayka Remembers Ardis, the Innovative Publisher That Brought Russian and Soviet Literature to the United States
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Meet the Best Debut Novelists of 2026

The Seven Finalists for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize on Their Reading and Writing Lives
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Why Are So Many Contemporary Novelists Not Naming the Narrator?

Ilana Bean Considers Contemporary Namelessness
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Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America

How Jean-Pierre and Eliane Laffont Documented the Counterculture

Cinema Amid the Ruins:
How Two Sisters Built a Movie Theater For the Children of Gaza

By Husam Maarouf

How AI Changes the Fundamental Structure of the Classroom—Especially the Segregated Ones

By Kamau Bobb

On the History of the Aes Sidhe, Ireland’s Seductively Dangerous Fairies

By Sarah Clegg

How the Communist Party of China Became the Most Successful Political Party in the World

By Paul Mason

“Elevation,” a Poem by Lindsay Turner

By Lindsay Turner

Truong Tran on Channeling the Violence of White Supremacy Into Art

By Truong Tran

Lit Hub is Hiring a Senior Editor For a New Vertical

By Literary Hub

Why We Should All Put Down Our Smartphones

By August Lamm

“If You Write Properly You Shouldn’t Have to Punctuate.” Was Cormac McCarthy That Guy in Your MFA?

By Tracy Daugherty

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What John Berryman’s Lectures Revealed About Young Shakespeare—and Himself

By Rory Loughnane

The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle’s Detective

By Lindsey Fitzharris

How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”

By Emma Smith-Stevens

On Writing About Syria’s Uyghur Community As a Chinese-American

By Emily Feng

A Look at Life Aboard the Hindenburg Before Disaster Struck

By Catherine Grace Katz

Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation

By Connor Williams

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

October 21, 2026

All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

The Best International Fiction of The Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Wild Robot Author Peter Brown on What Makes a Great Read-Aloud Book

By Literary Hub

Will Maclean on F*cking Up a Notebook to Write a Novel

By Will Maclean

How E.L. Shen Came to Understand Her Assassinated Ancestor Through Writing About Him

By E. L. Shen

Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation

By Connor Williams

Trying to Move Past the Endless Stereotyping of the “Rural American”

By Amy Olberding

Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

By Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice

By Anand Giridharadas

Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

By Alexander Lee

Five Essential Books for Understanding North Korea’s Cult of Personality

By Jonathan Cheng