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I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

October 3, 2024

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What the Supreme Court Can Learn From a 14th-Century Italian City-State

Liesl Schillinger on the Cautionary Art—and Good Governance—of Siena’s “Golden Age”

October 3, 2024

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The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

Cornelia Powers Grapples with the Pressures of Gamified Reading

October 2, 2024

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Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

October 1, 2024

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Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century

Jeffrey M. Pilcher Tracks the Transatlantic Development of Pilsners and Lagers from Central Europe to the Americas

September 30, 2024

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Banned Books and Rooneymania: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Calvin Kasulke Talks to Librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds and More

September 27, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in October

Spooky Action (and Comedy, and Drama) at a Distance

September 27, 2024

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The 16 Best Book Covers of September

Yellowing Leaves

September 26, 2024

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The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

John MacNeill Miller on Harriet Martineau’s Prescient Vision of Humanity

September 25, 2024

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Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

Featuring Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and More

September 24, 2024

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After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

September 24, 2024

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Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

(A back-to-school themed flowchart)

September 23, 2024

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Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the Power of the French Sociological Memoir

September 18, 2024

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The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

78 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season

September 17, 2024

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50 Facts About The Power Broker to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary

In Which James Folta Refuses to Write to a Listicle

September 16, 2024

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False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall

Steven W. Thrasher on American Campus Crackdowns on Free Assembly

September 16, 2024

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In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

Host Drew Broussard Gets the Inside Scoop from the Lit Hub Staff

September 13, 2024

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17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Reading Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

September 10, 2024

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Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

Alex Trimble Young Wants to Tell a Different Story of US Gun Culture

September 9, 2024

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How the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Transformed Gender Relations in Germany

Harald Jähner on the Economic, Social and Moral Landscape of Weimar Berlin

September 5, 2024

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Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

Nahil Mohana on the Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear

September 4, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

From “Rez Ball” to “Die Hard”

August 30, 2024

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Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide

“How difficult and treacherous our paths are, always, within this country and its institutions.”

August 29, 2024

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What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West

Tore C. Olsson on the Making of a Centuries-Old Obsession at the Heart of American National Identity

August 28, 2024

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Escaping Genocide:
Diary of a Life in Gaza

Nahil Mohana on Staying Alive During Israel’s Attacks on Palestine

August 27, 2024

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Rebecca Solnit: JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist

“Vance seems to assume that large numbers of native-born white people don't constitute ethnic enclaves.”

August 23, 2024

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A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”

August 22, 2024

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39 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

Binge Away

August 21, 2024

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The Joys and Fears of Trans Motherhood

Gabrielle Bellot Wonders What Kind of America She’s Starting a Family In

August 19, 2024

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Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Maris Kreizman on this Fall’s Incredible Crop of Fiction

August 15, 2024

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A Literary Road Trip Across America

Where to Go and What to Read There

August 14, 2024

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Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Nabil Echchaibi on Finding Joy Amidst the Crush of Occupation

August 7, 2024

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Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

August 5, 2024

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A Century of James Baldwin

Celebrating 100 Years of a Great American Mind

August 2, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

Netflix and Air Conditioning

August 1, 2024

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Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stack your summer with new reads from Nalo Hopkinson, Madeline Ashby, Beth Revis, and more

August 1, 2024

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The 17 Best Book Covers of July

It’s Hot Book Summer

July 31, 2024

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Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

And the First Openly Gay Olympic Medalist Was a Poet

July 29, 2024

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The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

Ainehi Edoro-Glines on the Inherent Racism of Reproducing the Euro-American View of Literature

July 26, 2024

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On the Simple Prophecy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Roz Dineen on the Book Everyone Should Read Now

July 22, 2024

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JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

Alissa Quart on the Art of the Deal of the Hillbilly

July 18, 2024

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What the New York Times Missed:
71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century

A Non-Boring List

July 16, 2024

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Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

For Jonny Diamond the Separation of the Art From the Artist Isn’t the Question

July 12, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two

193 Books to Read in the Second Half of the Year

July 10, 2024

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A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World

Ed Simon on "The Most Important Story Ever Told," That of Humanity's Transactional Relationship With Evil

July 9, 2024

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Our 21 Most-Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2024

Books for the Witches, Spacefarers, and Ghouls Among Us

July 3, 2024

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“It’s Harder for Me to Talk About Them.” Percival Everett on the Paintings He Makes

J.C. Gabel Talks to the Acclaimed Novelist and Poet About His Latest Art Exhibition

July 1, 2024

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The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

Or, Beach Book Bingo

June 12, 2024

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18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

More Light, More Books

May 29, 2024

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Remembering Paul Auster

1947-2024

May 28, 2024

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The Latest

In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded

Steven W. Thrasher on the Pernicious Narratives That Fuel the Status Quo

By Steven W. Thrasher October 3, 2024

Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This maximalist approach to storytelling relies on astounding powers of memory and invention.”

By Book Marks October 3, 2024

In Bangladesh, Protest Graffiti Challenged the Murky Narratives of Misinformation

Sarah Anjum Bari on the Power of Visible Words

By Sarah Anjum Bari October 3, 2024

European History

How the Future Henry V Began His Royal Career

Dan Jones on the Palace Intrigue Behind the Late 14th-Century Battle For England's Throne

By Dan Jones October 3, 2024

Nicer in Hindi: Sayantani Dasgupta on Living Between Three Languages

"Who am I? Am I really me, or an echo of all these others?"

By Sayantani Dasgupta October 3, 2024

Embracing Bucolic Beauty: On Finding Purpose and Joy in Raising Sheep

John Connell: “My existence had an aim and my incompleteness was ended. I let go of my sadness. It was a new-found freedom.”

By John Connell October 3, 2024

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Chowder and Community: In Praise of Warm Meals and Warm Hearts

By Tammy Armstrong October 3, 2024

Fiction/Non/Fiction

Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

By Fiction Non Fiction October 3, 2024

Children's Literature

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Caroline Carlson Recommends Some Fall Titles, No Matter Where You Live

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

By Caroline Carlson October 2, 2024

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

By Aaron Robertson October 2, 2024

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter October 2, 2024

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

October 3, 2024 By Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

September 27, 2024 By Book Marks

Inside the Yakuza's Growing Empire of Crime in Cambodia

October 3, 2024 By Jake Adelstein

True Crime In Translation: A Reading List

October 3, 2024 By Molly Odintz

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