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The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations
of the Decade

And then some.

December 10, 2019

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Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

John Erik Riley Takes the Long Road to Srebrenica

December 9, 2019

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Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year

Highlights From a Year in Reading by the Literary Hub Staff

December 5, 2019

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26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read

Our Favorite Writers Recommend Some Underappreciated Gems

December 3, 2019

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What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize Authors Weigh In

December 2, 2019

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Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

On Syntax, Rewrites, Second-Guesses, and Grace

December 2, 2019

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The Best Literary Adaptations to Stream Over Thanksgiving Break (Or Right Now)

A Show For Whatever Mood You Find Yourself In

November 26, 2019

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The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019

As Chosen by the Experts, the Designers Themselves

November 25, 2019

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The 10 Best Book Covers of November

The Lushest of the Lush

November 22, 2019

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A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

Michael Cunningham Travels to the Southern Italian City of Matera

November 21, 2019

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The 20 Best Novels of the Decade

Yes, here it is.

November 19, 2019

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On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

Rachel Vorona Cote Considers the Miss Dashwoods

November 18, 2019

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Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
Is It Dead

Nicola Gardini Refutes the Biases Towards the So-Called Dead Language

November 18, 2019

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Remembering the Moments Before the Charlie Hebdo Attack

Survivor Philippe Lançon on Memory and Fate in the Wake of Violence

November 14, 2019

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A Day in the Life of a Food Critic:
Chef Tantrums Included

Adam Platt on the Time Mario Batali Called Him “a Miserable Fuck”

November 13, 2019

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On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

Bad Reviews, Disastrous Elections, and the Intellectual State of Play in 1964 New York

November 12, 2019

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Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

How a Writer is Shaped By Perpetual Exile

November 11, 2019

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On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting

November 11, 2019

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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

November 8, 2019

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How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

Rethinking Ways of Describing Climate Change As It Is Lived

November 7, 2019

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Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich

November 6, 2019

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On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

November 6, 2019

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The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction
of the Decade

In which we cheated.

November 5, 2019

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Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Clémentine Goldszal on La Rentrée Littéraire

November 4, 2019

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What Makes Good Comfort Food? Writers in Conversation

With Mira Jacob, Maile Meloy, Emily Raboteau, and Diana Abu-Jaber

November 1, 2019

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André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

Catching Up Over Coffee with the Author of Call Me By Your Name

November 1, 2019

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American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

October 31, 2019

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The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

October 29, 2019

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The Latest

Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

Hilary Davidson Takes Us Through Regency Style

By Hilary Davidson December 10, 2019

Literary Long Weekends

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Chicago

Lynn Haller Suggests Live Lit, Bookstores with Dogs, and
a Little Spot Called the Hideout

By Lynn Haller December 10, 2019

The Hypocrisy of Big Business' Relationship to Cannabis

Lauren Michele Jackson on Race, Weed, and the
Gray Areas of the Legal System

By Lauren Michele Jackson December 10, 2019

Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

Considering Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error: Foundations of a New Science of Consciousness

By Siri Hustvedt December 10, 2019

How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

Paul Scraton on the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Everything After

By Paul Scraton December 10, 2019

Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

Chip Cheek, Wendy Erskine, De’Shawn Charles Winslow and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne December 10, 2019

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Black Women's Writing

What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

By Gabrielle Hickmon December 10, 2019

Lidia Yuknavitch Reads Her Short Story "Street Walker"

By Storybound December 10, 2019

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

Onstage Conversations at the LIC Reading Series event

<em>LIC Reading Series Podcast</em>: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

By LIC Reading Series December 10, 2019

Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
Punk and Brexit

By Fintan O'Toole December 9, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

By Freeman's December 9, 2019

The Best Reviewed Books of 2019:
Poetry

December 10, 2019 By Book Marks

Five Great Books About Visionary Youth

December 10, 2019 By Jane Ciabattari

Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

December 10, 2019 By Gary Phillips

7 Things Crime Readers Will No Longer Tolerate

December 10, 2019 By Christopher Fowler

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