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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

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In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

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By The Lit Hub Podcast | September 13, 2024

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

Anna Johnston on How to Write Aging Characters without Valorizing Youth

By Anna Johnston | September 13, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She will not let us have the happy ending we might prefer.”

By Book Marks | September 12, 2024

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Elizabeth Shick Recommends Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Karen Connelly, Charmaine Craig and More

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Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

The Author of “Mademoiselle Eiffel” Reflects on the Self-Gift From Her Book Advance that Keeps Her Going

By Aimie K. Runyan | September 11, 2024

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Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

By Peter Mishler | September 11, 2024

17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple | September 10, 2024

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

By Rachel Khong | September 10, 2024

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

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

Featuring Devika Rege, Carolyn Jack, Matthew Davis and More

By Teddy Wayne | September 10, 2024

Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

Alex Trimble Young Wants to Tell a Different Story of US Gun Culture

By Alex Trimble Young | September 9, 2024

Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

The Author of “Men Have Called Her Crazy” Talks to Cat Marnell

By Cat Marnell | September 9, 2024

Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s <em>In This Sign</em>

Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign

“The quietness... forces readers to reckon with the intricacies of deaf people as people.”

By Sara Nović | September 9, 2024

Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

The Author of “Tablets: Secrets of the Clay” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | September 9, 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 Rachel Kushner, Garth Greenwell, Weimar Germany, and More

By Book Marks | September 6, 2024

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

In Which There’s No Wrong Way to Write a Book

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2024

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