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Why <em>All Creatures Great and Small</em> is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos

By Ethan Warren | January 20, 2023

In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

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By Fiction Non Fiction | January 19, 2023

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

Richard Bradford on Political Mythmaking and Self-Delusion

By Richard Bradford | January 17, 2023

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

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Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Algren Got Fired, Banks Made a Friend

By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

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“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna | January 10, 2023

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Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

By Craig Brown | January 8, 2023

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>James Baldwin Abroad</em>

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From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

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Estelle Paranque on a Tumultuous Childhood and a High-Stakes Betrothal

By Estelle Paranque | December 22, 2022

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

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Aram Mrjoian Remembers the Author of In Everything I See Your Hand

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Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

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"Like in a publicity stunt, the strength of the image gives all the explanation necessary."

By Hervé Tullet | December 21, 2022

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

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Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing <em>A Christmas Carol </em>in just six weeks.

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What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

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Paul Fisher on an American Expatriate Artist’s Early Pursuit of Inspiration

By Paul Fisher | December 19, 2022

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