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Bruce McCall: The Story Behind Eight New Yorker Covers

Also, His All-Time Favorite

November 24, 2020

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On the Prosperity Gospel, the Soul of Money, and Proto-Capitalist Jesus

The Paired Narrative Trajectories of Christ and Cash

November 24, 2020

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting
Nazis Halfway

Why Is It So Hard for Democrats to Act Like They Actually Won?

November 19, 2020

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The Fall of Trump: On Presidents, Dictators, and Life After a Regime

Francisco Goldman Considers What Happens Next

November 12, 2020

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Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

That's Right.

November 11, 2020

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Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here

The Ascendancy of Kamala Harris to the White House is More Radical Than We Think

November 6, 2020

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N. Scott Momaday on the Vulnerability of Prairielands

"The earth is not impervious to the presence of man."

November 6, 2020

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Kamala Harris: Berkeley's Black and South Asian Communities Taught Me the Meaning of Family

"I could begin to imagine what my future might hold for me."

November 3, 2020

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The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

Apropos of . . . Nothing

October 27, 2020

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A Book to Conjure Nature, When We
Need It Most

In Conversation with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris About The Lost Spells

October 26, 2020

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Sylvia Plath... Nature Writer?

Marlena Williams on the Poet's Fraught Relationship with the Wild

October 23, 2020

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Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

“Ancient Things Are New Things."

October 22, 2020

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On Voting: It's Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

Todd Gitlin Reminds Us of What It Means to Cast a Ballot

October 21, 2020

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On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Kanako Nishi: "Morrison neither consoled me as a victim, nor condemned me as the perpetrator."

October 20, 2020

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Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

"The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism."

October 15, 2020

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In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

S. Kirk Walsh Looks Back at 33 Years of Writers in Public

October 14, 2020

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Mariana Enriquez: On a French Love Affair and a Man Lost to Time

"I was never naked with anyone so beautiful."

October 13, 2020

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Andrew Solomon on Mental Health Amid the Pandemic

From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

October 13, 2020

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A World on Fire: Fatima Bhutto on Surviving Crisis

...and Chronicling Where Things Went So Wrong

October 8, 2020

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On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

Kerri Andrews Considers What It Means to Have a Genius for Place

October 7, 2020

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Sayaka Murata on Making Friends with Imaginary Aliens

"I’m an Earthling, but once I’ve finished writing this essay I’ll go home to their planet."

October 7, 2020

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The Ultimate Fall 2020
Books Preview

The Most Anticipated Books of the Season, According to Math

September 21, 2020

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To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lynn Steger Strong on the Death of an Unlikely Icon

September 21, 2020

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Ross Gay: Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?

On the Unlikely Tenderness and Care of a Good Pick-Up Basketball Game

September 15, 2020

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Life in the Forever Fires: Toward Serenity in an Apocalypse

Kailyn McCord on 30 Years of Fire Seasons

September 14, 2020

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When in Doubt, Smile Like
an Axolotl

Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Praise of the Mexican Walking Fish

September 11, 2020

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To Imagine Life Post-Climate Change: A Conversation with Diane Cook

Amanda Goldblatt Talks to the Author of The New Wilderness

September 11, 2020

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For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
in a Pandemic

Lauren Markham on the Daily Magic of the US Postal System

September 4, 2020

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What Are We Going to Do About Voter Suppression?

A Conversation with Jim Downs, Carol Anderson, Heather Ann Thompson, Kevin Kruse,
Heather Cox Richardson, and Stacey Abrams

September 3, 2020

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The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of In Cold Blood

"The novel is ultimately a LIE."

September 2, 2020

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Hari Kunzru is Never Going to Read To Kill a Mockingbird

The Author of Red Pill Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

September 1, 2020

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Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

What We'll Never Know About Capitalism's Toxic Aftermath

September 1, 2020

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The Year Afropessimism Hit the Streets?:
A Conversation at the Edge of the World

Aaron Robertson Talks to Frank Wilderson III

August 27, 2020

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To John Lewis, Whose Strength and Sweetness Never Faltered

A Letter From Poet Nikky Finney

August 27, 2020

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Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

One of Our Very Best Writers About the Natural World Has a Little Advice

August 25, 2020

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Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books
of 2020, Part 2

A Reading List for Our Cursed Timeline

July 14, 2020

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Talking to the Editor Behind Back-to-Back Booker Prizes

Peter Blackstock on Shuggie Bain and Editor As Gatekeeper

By Katie Yee November 24, 2020

Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, November Edition

Featuring art thieves, Nazi-resistors, medieval scientists, and more

By Book Marks November 24, 2020

On the Extravagance of Mark Twain's Family Dishes

Melissa Scholes Young on Humble Beginnings, Thanksgiving, and Leisure Time

By Melissa Scholes Young November 24, 2020

The Life of Carla Capponi, Nazi-Fighter of Occupied Rome

"Heedless of the flames, she pulled the injured soldier from the burning wreck."

By Victor Failmezger November 24, 2020

How Come We Don't Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

Luigi Amara on the Curious Place of Hair Pieces in the Age of Enlightenment

By Luigi Amara November 24, 2020

Doughnuts or Donuts? Krispy Kreme or Dunkin'? All of the Above?

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant Embrace a Gluttony of Options

By Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant November 24, 2020

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Erin Brockovich Wants to Talk About the Water Crisis

By Keen On November 24, 2020

In Conversation

Pamela Painter on Reading's Pleasures—and Badly Behaved Characters

By Margot Livesey November 24, 2020

Australian Literature

Wayne Macauley on
Gerald Murnane's Most Memorable Book

Considering "Cultural Cringe" and the Issue of Literary Influence

Wayne Macauley on <br>Gerald Murnane's Most Memorable Book

By Wayne Macauley November 24, 2020

On Arnold Lobel's Preoccupation With Solitude in Frog and Toad

By Lit Century November 24, 2020

Time to Eat the Dogs

Arctic Fever and the Creation of the Hyper-Masculine Explorer

By Time to Eat the Dogs November 24, 2020

Five Books That Make You Feel Uncomfortable Under Your Skin

November 24, 2020 By Jane Ciabattari

November's Best Reviewed History and Politics Books

November 24, 2020 By Book Marks

Linda, Interrupted

November 24, 2020 By Sarah Weinman

How Today's Authors Are Reinvigorating Noir's Classic Tropes

November 24, 2020 By Halley Sutton

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