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

With Drew Broussard, Jonny Diamond, James Folta, Calvin Kasulke, Molly Odintz, and Dan Sheehan

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 13, 2024

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

Ed Simon on the Enduring Political Relevance of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

By Ed Simon | December 13, 2024

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

By Maris Kreizman | December 12, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sharon Sliwinski, Samih al-Qasim, Mike Davis, and Others

By Diana Arterian | December 12, 2024

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 12, 2024

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Sara B. Franklin on Telling the Truth (and Making It Bearable)

By Sara B. Franklin | December 11, 2024

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

By Nathan Deuel | December 11, 2024

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

By David S. Cho | December 11, 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

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

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

By Orlando Reade | December 10, 2024

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

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

Featuring Ella Baxter, Christopher Bollen, Eliza Moss, and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 10, 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

By Tobias Carroll | December 10, 2024

Paul McCartney! Hannah Arendt’s poetry! “Paradise Lost”! 15 new books out today.

Paul McCartney! Hannah Arendt’s poetry! “Paradise Lost”! 15 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 10, 2024

17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

Aliens, Magic, Scares, and More

By Drew Broussard | December 9, 2024

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s <em>Texas: The Great Theft</em>

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

“Like a thief, gossip moves swiftly, undeterred by rivers or valleys, indifferent to borders and the hotheads who patrol them.”

By Merve Emre | December 9, 2024

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2024

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