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Mr. Difficult Rides Again: On the Unexpected Genius of William Gaddis's Masterpiece

Patrick Allington Disagrees with Jonathan Franzen About J R

December 3, 2020

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The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020

As Chosen by Our Favorite Book Cover Designers

December 2, 2020

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House Cats and Wild Cats Aren't Actually That Different

John Gray on the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Felines

December 1, 2020

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How Social Medicine Can Help Us Understand Pandemics

Paul Farmer on the Interplay of a Virus and Its Environment

December 1, 2020

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Isabel Wilkerson on the Legacies of American Chattel Slavery

The Making of Color Caste in the United States

November 30, 2020

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Who Exactly Was Rilke's Young Poet Correspondent?

Damion Searls on Translating Letters to a Young Poet
(and the Young Poet's Letters)

November 30, 2020

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The 10 Best Book Covers
of November

The Only Way Out is Through

November 25, 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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Lessons in Humility From Teaching in the Mojave Desert

Thomas Maltman Remembers His First Year As a Middle School Teacher

By Thomas Maltman December 4, 2020

The Hidden Literary Heritage of Harriet the Spy

Leslie Brody on the Origins of an Iconic Character

By Leslie Brody December 4, 2020

How the NBA Became a Spectacle

Courtside Fireworks, Laker Girls, and Marvin Gaye's Epic Rendition of the National Anthem

By Pete Croatto December 4, 2020

Aminatta Forna and Maaza Mengiste: A Conversation and Cover Real

The Window Seat, an Essay Collection, Comes Out Next May

By Literary Hub December 4, 2020

On Loneliness and the Superficial Friendships of Men

Andrew Reiner: Toward a New, More Emotional Masculinity

By Andrew Reiner December 4, 2020

The Mankiewicz Brothers' Biographer Weighs in on David Fincher's Mank

Sydney Stern on the Beauty and Limits of Capturing Icons on Screen

By Sydney Ladensohn Stern December 4, 2020

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Aubrey Gordon on Dealing With Aggressive Fatphobia

By Aubrey Gordon December 4, 2020

The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Candice Brathwaite, Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff, and Elisabeth Fapuro in Conversation

By The Virtual Book Channel December 4, 2020

What a New Book Expo Could Learn From the Helsinki
Book Fair

Bethanne Patrick on Lessons From a Country That Reads

What a New Book Expo Could Learn From the Helsinki<br> Book Fair

By Bethanne Patrick December 3, 2020

Climate Crisis Readings

Endless Plastic, Eco-Sorrow, and Disappearing Islands: Climate Readings for December

By Amy Brady December 3, 2020

Talking About Psychedelic Drugs With a Fellow Mother at the Playground

By Wendy Ortiz December 3, 2020

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

December 4, 2020 By Book Marks

François Vigneault on Italo Calvino, Ursula K. LeGuin, and the Moomins

December 2, 2020 By Book Marks

The Meticulous Noir of David Fincher

December 4, 2020 By Zach Vasquez

Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers

December 4, 2020 By Donald Nicholson-Smith

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