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Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language

By Jhumpa Lahiri | May 19, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The plot twist, when it arrives, is not in itself ridiculous but the execution is.”

By Book Marks | May 19, 2022

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

“As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.”

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

John Taylor Williams on Two Radical Communities

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

Mary Laura Philpott on Why Structure Is Always Story

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 18, 2022

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You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

By Aaron Angello | May 18, 2022

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

By NewberyTart | May 18, 2022

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

19 new books to savor this week.

19 new books to savor this week.

By Katie Yee | May 17, 2022

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

”They take you—for one evening if you don't put it down, longer if you draw it out—to a place that you can see in sharp detail.”

By Victoria Shorr | May 17, 2022

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

The Author of Forbidden City Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2022

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to <em>Bridgerton</em>

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances

By Hilary A. Hallett | May 16, 2022

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