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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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Here’s Your 2024 Literary Film & TV Preview

53 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

January 10, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024

230 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 3, 2024

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24 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2024

Exciting New Series’ and Standalones From Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, Sofia Samatar, James S.A. Corey, and More

January 2, 2024

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You Get Editors’ Personalized Book Recs, an Ad-Free Reading Experience, AND the Joan Didion Tote Bag

December 23, 2023

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

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Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

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Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Old People in Literature

Anna Johnston on How to Write Aging Characters without Valorizing Youth

By Anna Johnston September 13, 2024

The Craft of Writing

Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

"It is about remembering the fear or wrongness that you felt in your body."

By Brian Evenson September 13, 2024

“Theories of Influence,” a Poem by Anselm Berrigan

From the Collection “Don’t Forget to Love Me”

By Anselm Berrigan September 13, 2024

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

From Dylan C. Penningroth Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Before the Movement”

By Dylan C. Penningroth September 13, 2024

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Immigrant Stories

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

By Daisy Hernández September 13, 2024

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Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

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Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a Publishing Gossip Site

Maris Kreizman on the Important Role of Xoxopublishinggg

Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a Publishing Gossip Site

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More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

By Andrew C. McKevitt September 12, 2024

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