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The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

Lisa Duggan on the Influence of the Original Mean Girl

By Lisa Duggan | May 31, 2019

Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

Dennis Tang on Entering a New Era in His Reading Life

By Dennis Tang | May 31, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in May

By Literary Hub | May 31, 2019

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

Alyson Hagy on Rough Magic, Unruly Women, and the Beauty of Horses

By Alyson Hagy | May 30, 2019

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

Lynn Steger Strong on New Books By Jamil Zaki and Christian Kiefer

By Lynn Steger Strong | May 30, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

By Philip Eil | May 29, 2019

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Dean Kuipers Reads the Poet's Posthumous Collection

By Dean Kuipers | May 28, 2019

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Raksha Vasudevan on Coming Face-to-Face With the Myths that Make America

By Raksha Vasudevan | May 28, 2019

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Hamilton Cain Considers David Epstein's Range

By Hamilton Cain | May 28, 2019

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Meg Donohue on the Enduring Appeal of Updating Old Stories

By Meg Donohue | May 28, 2019

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

"Nothing was impossible for a writer like him."

By Billy Kahora | May 24, 2019

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

In Celebration of a Writer, Bill-Payer, and Bordello Owner

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

Rebecca Brill on Inhabiting the Diaries of a Great Mind

By Rebecca Brill | May 23, 2019

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