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Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People

Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist

April 14, 2023

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On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

Daphne Kalotay Reminds Us of the Value of Short Fiction

April 13, 2023

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22 (More) Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

We Asked, You Answered

April 12, 2023

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“I’m Pretty Keen on Fact.” Margaret Atwood on the Questions We Must Ask Ourselves

Introducing the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

April 4, 2023

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir

“It often feels like a cover designer I have not met has captured some dimension of the book I have not been aware.”

April 4, 2023

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Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

Five Translators on the Woman Who Wrote on Displacement, Transnationalism, and the Joys of Literature

April 3, 2023

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How Octavia Butler’s Kindred Became a Novel

Michael Silverblatt Talks with Octavia Butler About Historical Research, Trauma, Touch, and More

March 31, 2023

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in April

Sex, Sex, and Judy Blume

March 31, 2023

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Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red is Way Funnier Than You Remember

Emily Temple Revisits a Masterpiece 25 Years Later

March 30, 2023

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The 11 Best Book Covers of March

Here Be Monsters

March 30, 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

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an Uncanny, Stirring Film and a Worthy Tribute to Haruki Murakami

Pierre Földes’ Animated Film is Based on Six Murakami Stories, and Adeptly Captures Their Eerie, Longing Tones

By Olivia Rutigliano April 14, 2023

Renfield Doesn’t Know What to Do With Itself

The Dracula Relationship Comedy Starts Off Strong, and Then Lowers Its Stakes to Become... a Buddy Cop Movie

By Olivia Rutigliano April 14, 2023

Jena Friedman Gives Male Comedians the Female Media Treatment

“Do you think men can be sexy AND funny?”

By Jena Friedman April 14, 2023

Pattiann Rogers on the Scientific Underpinnings of Poetry

“Poets judge their own reactions to the words and the forms they have chosen.”

By Pattiann Rogers April 14, 2023

The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

The Author of My Life in Pictures Talks to Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life

By The Literary Life April 14, 2023

How Ru Paul Created a Castle for Queer Beauty

Sasha Velour on Disguises, Reveals, and Reality TV

By Sasha Velour April 14, 2023

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

“Prompt,” a Poem by Rebecca Foust

By Rebecca Foust April 14, 2023

Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

By Book Marks April 14, 2023

The Craft of Writing

Rachel Beanland on Managing Time in Fiction

On the Careful Balance Between Scene and Summary

Rachel Beanland on Managing Time in Fiction

By Rachel Beanland April 14, 2023

Matt Moore Talks Meat, Butcher Shops and Where to Find the Best Lebanese Food in America

By Keen On April 14, 2023

Thomas Byrne Edsall on the Republican Party’s Descent Into Minority Authoritarianism

By Keen On April 14, 2023

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

April 14, 2023 By Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

April 13, 2023 By Book Marks

Searching for the Golden Triangle's "Opium Queen"

April 14, 2023 By Gabrielle Paluch

A Snapshot of the Many and Various Criminals Aboard the Titanic

April 14, 2023 By James Bartlett

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