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Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Rental House”

By Jane Ciabattari | December 17, 2024

Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

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Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

On the Impact of—and Response to—14 Months of Israel’s Assault on Gaza

By Literary Hub | December 16, 2024

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

Ian Williams Offers Less Meta, Less Rule-Based Ways to Approach Difficult Conversations

By Ian Williams | December 16, 2024

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s <em>The Sleepers</em>

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Karla Kelsey Considers Questions of Gender, Agency and Freedom on Both Sides of the Photographer’s Lens

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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

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Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

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Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

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Nathan Deuel Wonders What We Really Need From Our Literary Heroes

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A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s <em>Clay Walls</em>

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David S. Cho Explores Ideas of Homeland, Belonging and Identity in a Pioneering Contribution to Asian American Literature

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Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching <em>Paradise Lost</em> to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

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