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How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

“As the story grew, I felt the need for nature.”

By Ben Okri | March 9, 2022

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

Tara Isabella Burton on the Combination of Isolation, Vulnerability, and Hunger for Knowledge

By Tara Isabella Burton | March 9, 2022

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

Mona Chollet on Being Condemned to “Orbit Around the Planet of True Knowledge”

By Mona Chollet | March 9, 2022

How Rumi Became a Poet

How Rumi Became a Poet

Haleh Liza Gafori on Rumi's Formative Friendship with Shams

By Haleh Liza Gafori | March 9, 2022

Kevin Barry on <em>Flowers in the Attic</em>, <em>2666</em>, and <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of That Old Country Music

By Book Marks | March 9, 2022

It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

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By Katie Yee | March 8, 2022

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How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

By Kate Tsurkan | March 8, 2022

What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

By Lee Cole | March 8, 2022

Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

By Erin Kate Ryan | March 8, 2022

Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

Mary Ann Sieghart Considers the Literary Gender Gap

By Mary Ann Sieghart | March 8, 2022

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

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

Featuring Kathryn Davis, Maud Newton, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | March 8, 2022

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

The Author of The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 8, 2022

19 new books to get lost in this week.

19 new books to get lost in this week.

By Katie Yee | March 8, 2022

On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

How Amal El-Mohtar Fell Completely in Love

By Amal El-Mohtar | March 7, 2022

Finding Inspiration in Willa Cather’s Belief in the Necessity of Art

Finding Inspiration in Willa Cather’s Belief in the Necessity of Art

Ladette Randolph on Cather’s Romanticized Plots and Fierce Intelligence

By Ladette Randolph | March 7, 2022

How to Express Your Love to Virginia Woolf

How to Express Your Love to Virginia Woolf

Lessons from Vita Sackville-West on the History of Literature

By History of Literature | March 7, 2022

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