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    Women's Anger

    The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

    By Gwen E. Kirby  January 11, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2022
    Genre

    Vision Quest: On Trying to Define the Great American Novel

    By Jonathan Evison  January 10, 2022
    Indigenous Lit

    Learning From Almanac of the Dead, a Hallmark of Indigenous Literature

    By Lou Cornum  January 10, 2022
    Queer Lit

    My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

    By Andre Bagoo  January 10, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

    By Lynn Steger Strong  January 10, 2022
    The History of Literature

    A Literary History of Dragons

    By History of Literature  January 10, 2022
    News and Culture

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

    By Book Marks  January 7, 2022
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Europa Editions

    By Corinne Segal  January 7, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Xochitl Gonzalez on the Emotional Toll of Success

    By The Maris Review  January 6, 2022
    Creative Nonfiction

    Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

    By Ingrid Horrocks  January 6, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    Lockwood on Knausgaard! And 4 Other Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 6, 2022
    Indie Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This January

    By Corinne Segal  January 6, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Amy Leach and Eula Biss on Our Interconnected World

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 6, 2022
    Shakespeare

    On Reimagining the Infinite Dramatic Scope of Shakespeare and His Immortal Characters

    By Kathryn Barker  January 6, 2022
    Otherppl

    Lou Mathews on Studying with the Great Raymond Carver (During Carver’s Drinking Days)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 6, 2022
    Queer Literature

    Reconstituting Our Shared Past: On the Transformative Power of Queer Historical Fiction

    By Beatrice Hitchman  January 6, 2022
    What to Read

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022

    By Literary Hub  January 5, 2022
    Reading Lists

    How the New York Times Reacted to Norman Mailer’s First Novel

    By Book Marks  January 5, 2022
    Journalism

    On the Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism

    By Peter Richardson  January 5, 2022
    Indigenous Lit

    On the 21st-Century Renaissance of Native American Fiction

    By Erika Wurth  January 5, 2022
    The Hub

    15 new books to help you accomplish your 2022 reading goals.

    By Katie Yee  January 4, 2022
    What to Watch

    Love, Loss, and What We Watched: The Case for Tracking Your Film and TV Consumption

    By Eliza Smith  January 4, 2022
    Philosophy

    In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

    By Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko  January 4, 2022
    Borders

    Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

    By Yara Zgheib  January 4, 2022
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