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On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

Stephanie Toliver on Not Deferring the Dream of Black Girls Being Represented in YASF

By Stephanie Toliver | August 8, 2019

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald <br>Never Wrote

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

A Romantic Drama Against the Backdrop of History

By Anne Margaret Daniel | August 7, 2019

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

Elliott Holt Revisits Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel, Foreign Affairs

By Elliott Holt | August 7, 2019

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

and?"">"Why are we in the West so deeply uncomfortable with and?"

By Tope Folarin | August 7, 2019

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

Kate McQuade on Yaa Gyasi, Art Spiegelman, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | August 6, 2019

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Toward a Theory of the New Weird

By Elvia Wilk | August 5, 2019

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

By Walter Benjamin | August 2, 2019

The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
Moby Dick

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 1, 2019

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

Rachel Seiffert Considers Last Witnesses

By Rachel Seiffert | August 1, 2019

The Encyclopedic Genius of<br> Melville's Masterpiece

The Encyclopedic Genius of
Melville's Masterpiece

On Moby Dick as a Way of Seeing the World

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari | August 1, 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 July

By Emily Firetog | July 31, 2019

Tony Hoagland Was a Poet <br>of Heart and Humor

Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
of Heart and Humor

Mike Schneider Remembers His Friend's Idiomatic Writing

By Mike Schneider | July 29, 2019

8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

Craig Davidson on Victor LaValle, Octavia Butler, Sara Gran, Muriel Spark, and More

By Craig Davidson | July 29, 2019

On the Evolution of Fatness<br> in Society

On the Evolution of Fatness
in Society

Christopher Forth on Religious and Utopian Figurations of the Human Body and Disgust

By Christopher E. Forth | July 29, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

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