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 October

By Literary Hub | October 31, 2019

Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s <em>Othello</em>

Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s Othello

Aatif Rashid on Edward Said, Ayad Akhtar, and
Depictions of Violent Brown Men

By Aatif Rashid | October 30, 2019

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

The Author of Females: A Concern, in Conversation with Eric Newman

By Eric Newman | October 29, 2019

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From <em>Charlotte's Web</em>

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte's Web

Erin Wisti on E.B. White's Classic of Radical Decency

By Erin Wisti | October 28, 2019

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

Charlie Tyson on the Philosophy of Idleness and Imagining the Impossible

By Charlie Tyson | October 28, 2019

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About<br> Being Human

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk

By Cristina Bacchilega | October 25, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

By Joanna Kavenna | October 25, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

By Carl Phillips | October 23, 2019

On the Countercultural Influence of <em>Peanuts</em>

On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

David Ulin Considers Linus, Boy Philosopher

By David L. Ulin | October 22, 2019

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

Cara Hoffman Gets Real About Talking Mice

By Cara Hoffman | October 22, 2019

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Liska Jacobs on the Laureate of Southern California

By Liska Jacobs | October 22, 2019

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

On Leaving a Public Record of Your Mistakes

By Maddie Crum | October 21, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

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