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“Why should art need to appease and excite everyone at once?”

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The PRH Trial Has Revealed a Barely Hidden Scorn for Independent Publishers

Margot Atwell of Feminist Press on the Importance of Indies

How We Humans Created the Universe

Moiya McTier On Our Galaxy's Many Origin Stories

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

"The only thing that kept me going was stories."

The 10 Best Book Covers of July

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The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

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Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

John Domini on Amber Sparks, Percival Everett, Laura van den Berg, Lance Olsen, Paul Beatty, Karen Russell, and More

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

Michele Herman: “Libraries so clearly help to make good citizens, are so clearly a municipal force for the common good.”

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022, Part Two

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On the Most Ambitious Literary Podcast in the History of the World

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The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in July

From Jane Austen to Jumanji

Patrick Radden Keefe on Why Access in Journalism is Overrated

On the Art of the “Writearound”

Exploring the Richard Brautigan Universe of Bubblegum Minimalism That Inspired Harry Styles

Matt Mitchell on the Inspiration Behind “Watermelon Sugar”

In One of Her Last Interviews, Joan Didion Talks to Hari Kunzru About Loss, Blue Nights, and Giving Up the Yellow Corvette

“Something happened—the ease of my relationship with language disappeared.”

Racism, Patriarchy, and Power: Siri Hustvedt on the Toxic Thinking Behind the Supreme Court’s Destruction of Abortion Rights

“Legislating reproductive rights remains a hallmark of authoritarian and fascist governments.”

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

Words to “Remind Us of the Love We Share During the Rough Times to Come.”

111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

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Naomi Kanakia on the Class Contradictions at the Heart of Publishing

How Long Can the Heart Go On Breaking? Three Poems of Gun Violence in America

Poetry by Alissa Quart and Rodrigo Toscano

The Creative Rebellion of Black Liberated Life: A Reading List for Juneteenth

Kris Manjapra on Ross Gay, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and More

The Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List

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Gothics, Whodunnits, Psychologicals, Historicals, and More: 19 Young Adult Reads for the Summer

All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?

Daegan Miller on The World As We Knew It and New Kinds of Nature Writing

Our 15 Favorite Summery Novels for Summer Reading

This Year and Every Year, As Recommended by Lit Hub Staff

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

Part Three of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

9 Short Story Collections You Need to Read This Summer

Part Two of Lit Hub’s Summer Preview

35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

Part One of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in June

Featuring George Saunders, a Queer Pride and Prejudice, and More

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution

Frances Ha is All Grown Up

Olivia Rutigliano on the Greta Gerwig Coming-of-Age Comedy Ten Years Later

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

Marco Belpoliti on Collective Memory and Publishing in Post-War Italy

Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

Dear American Gun Owner:
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Brenda Hillman on the Work of Keeping Rage and Sorrow Alive

On the Ball: In Memory of Roger Angell, 1920-2022

Michael Lindgren on One of the All-Time Greats

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

Eden Collinsworth on the Intellectual and Artistic Development of One of History’s Greatest Geniuses

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

“As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.”

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

Annie Finch, Editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, in Conversation with Some Contributors

A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

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From True Crime to Giant Snakes, Something for Everyone

What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality

“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

Corrupt Russian Oligarchs Trying to Destroy You? Better Call John Moscow

Bill Browder on What Happens When You Name and Shame the Bad Guys

Hope for Planet Earth: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change

Because the Case for Hope—and the Need for Change—Has Never Been More Urgent

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope

How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

Kathryn Harkup on the Many Ways To Live and Die on the Elizabethan Stage

Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

“Being a human is extraordinary.”

Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

“Defend yourself to your last breath—and whatever you do / don’t let them near you.”

Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

Barbara Shulgasser-Parker Illuminates the Perverse Side to the Famed Writer

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