Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

On the French Existentialist's Never-Before-Published Novel

By Margaret Atwood | September 8, 2021

Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

“Writing is spooky. You’re colonizing another’s brain for as long as it takes for them to read your work.”

By Rebecca Makkai | September 8, 2021

Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | September 8, 2021

Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting <em>The Merchant of Venice</em> with My 10-Year-Old Son

Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

Dara Horn on Hearing Shakespeare's Antisemitism with Fresh Ears

By Dara Horn | September 8, 2021

The In-Between World: On the Mythology of <em>The Famished Road</em> and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

Vanessa Guignery Considers the Author's Blurring of Boundaries

By Vanessa Guignery | September 8, 2021

Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | September 8, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

By Big Table | September 7, 2021

Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

By Jane Ciabattari | September 7, 2021

Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female Relationships in Literature

By Dawn Turner | September 7, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

On Creating a “Charmingly Irregular” List

By Corinne Segal | September 3, 2021

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

Joy Castro Revisits an Intellectual Ahead of Her Time

By Joy Castro | September 2, 2021

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Let the Biggest Season for Books Commence

By Emily Temple | September 1, 2021

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

Meredith Westgate Wonders About the Role of Memory in the Age of Social Media

By Meredith Westgate | September 1, 2021

13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

By Katie Yee | August 31, 2021

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

By Emily Temple | August 31, 2021

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | August 31, 2021

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