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September 25, 2025

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What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time

Patricia A. Matthew Explores the Historical Context of Jane Austen’s Most Famous Novel

September 22, 2025

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How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps

Anne Sebba on the Multifaceted Role of Music Amidst the Horrors of the Holocaust

September 17, 2025

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95 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season

September 16, 2025

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Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

“I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

September 15, 2025

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Getting to Know the Great John Prine

Tom Piazza on His Inspiring Encounters With a Folk-Country Icon

September 12, 2025

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How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

Elaine L. Wang on “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”

September 11, 2025

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On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

Nathaniel Moore Reads Patricia Lockwood, Rachel Yoder, and Charlotte Wood

September 10, 2025

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September 8, 2025

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Why Helen Garner Embedded With Her Grandson’s Footy Club

“That’s when footy really got a grip on me. It made me feel lucky to be alive.”

September 4, 2025

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49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

Your Essential Book-to-Screen Fall Preview

September 4, 2025

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Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

Adam Verner Explores the Uncanny Valley of Automated Audiobooks

September 3, 2025

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Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory

“I was convinced that I had destroyed the people I loved most in the world.”

September 3, 2025

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It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

September 2, 2025

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

The Man in My Basement, Slow Horses, Highest 2 Lowest, and more.

August 29, 2025

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The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

August 27, 2025

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Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

How River Selby Found Herself Battling Wildfires

August 25, 2025

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Surviving the Infamous Flour Massacre in Gaza

Ahmed Dader: “I will need years for the scenes of that night to fade in my memory.”

August 25, 2025

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The Fascist History of Yoga

Stewart Home Explores the Influence of Right-Wing Ideology on the Practice of Yoga

August 22, 2025

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On Drew Barrymore’s Iconic Scream
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Real Tears, Hyperventilating, and Wes Craven’s Vision

August 20, 2025

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The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

From Inside the Besieged Strip, Alaa Alqaisi on Life as a “Sustained Dismantling of the Soul”

August 13, 2025

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Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?

Jess deCourcy Considers the Staying Power of Green Eggs and Ham

August 12, 2025

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Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet

Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys on the Artistic Journey of Modern Greek Literature’s Most Distinguished Poetic Voice

August 12, 2025

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How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

Grace Aldridge on Rereading Jane Austen After the End of Her Marriage

August 8, 2025

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M.G. Sheftall Chronicles Daily Life in Japan At the End of the Second World War

August 7, 2025

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Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

August 6, 2025

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Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now

Devin Thomas O’Shea on What a Master of the 20th Century Can Offer the 21st

August 5, 2025

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On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

July 31, 2025

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The 11 Best Book Covers of July

High Art for High Summer

July 31, 2025

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“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

Philip Metres on the Eternal Brilliance of a Russian Master

July 30, 2025

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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse

July 28, 2025

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Neko Case on Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters as Much Today as She Ever Did

On the Musical and Political Legacy of a Groundbreaking Singer-Songwriter

July 24, 2025

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On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

Emily Van Duyne Reads Jamie Hood, Amie Souza Reilly, Zadie Smith, and Edward Said

July 24, 2025

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A Refuge From Censorship: Why Independent Bookstores Will Save Us

Kate Broad on the Invaluable Civic and Cultural Role of Booksellers Across the Country

July 23, 2025

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Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce

Ed Simon Considers the Habits and Processes of a Group of Critically and Commercially Acclaimed Authors

July 21, 2025

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Our 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

249 Books to Read Before the End of the Year

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The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

Sun, Fun, Math, and Counting

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Here’s Your 2025 Literary Film & TV Preview

27 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

291 Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year

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20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2025

Looking Ahead to the Year’s SFF Offerings From Amal el-Mohtar, Daryl Gregory, Katherine Addison, R.F. Kuang, and Many More

January 2, 2025

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The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2025

Caroline Carlson Asks Dahlia Adler, Jashar Awan, Rachel Ekstrom Courage and Others About The KidLit They're Most Looking Forward To This Year

January 2, 2025

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