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It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 17, 2024

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

Bruna Dantas Lobato Recommends Ayşegül Savaş, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Ananda Lima, and More

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | October 17, 2024

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

Helen Castor on the Timeless Resonance of a Medieval Political Crisis

By Helen Castor | October 17, 2024

Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 17, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mahmoud Darwish, and Others

By Diana Arterian | October 16, 2024

The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

Kate Hamilton Recommends Deborah Levy, Han Kang, Soraya Chemaly, and More

By Kate Hamilton | October 16, 2024

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No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

By John Larison | October 16, 2024

“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

By Joyce Carol Oates | October 15, 2024

Mark Haddon! Dorothy Parker! Anthony Bourdain! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 15, 2024

Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Jonny Diamond in Conversation with Kim Kelly

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 11, 2024

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Cherry Lou Sy on Searching for Identity Beyond Categories and Schisms

By Cherry Lou Sy | October 11, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Alan Hollinghurst, John Lewis, John Edgar Wideman, and More

By Book Marks | October 11, 2024

Which One of You Sent Me <em>Lonesome Dove</em> in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

In Which Maris Kreizman Reads Larry McMurtry’s Classic

By Maris Kreizman | October 10, 2024

From <em>Beowulf</em> to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

Michael Lynn Crews Investigates the Inspiration Behind “Blood Meridian,” “Suttree” and Other Novels

By Michael Lynn Crews | October 10, 2024

Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

Samantha Greene Woodruff Recommends Tom Wolfe, David Liss, Michael Lewis, and More

By Samantha Greene Woodruff | October 10, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"It insists on patience as it doles out its pleasures."

By Book Marks | October 10, 2024

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