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Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Damion Searls on What Emerging and Established Translators Can Learn From a Careful Examination of Texts

By Damion Searls | October 29, 2024

Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s <em>Fire</em> in Fire Season

Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s Fire in Fire Season

Ben Woollard on the Newly Reissued 1948 Novel

By Ben Woollard | October 29, 2024

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

Brothers Grimm! Gilmore Girls! Glory Edim! 18 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 29, 2024

Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 25, 2024

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

Eiren Caffall Recommends Herman Melville, Sebastian Junger, Diana Preston, and More

By Eiren Caffall | October 25, 2024

Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

Ariana Reines Remembers Her Mother's Passing in a World of Increasing Technological Numbness

By Ariana Reines | October 25, 2024

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By Book Marks | October 24, 2024

Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

By Robin Waterfield | October 24, 2024

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Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 24, 2024

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

Nguyễn Bình Explores the Author’s Influence on Vietnamese Literature

By Nguyễn Bình | October 23, 2024

Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

Vanessa Braganza on the 1969 Adaptation of Muriel Spark’s Novel

By Vanessa Braganza | October 23, 2024

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Molly McCully Brown: “I hope I can look long and hard enough to let the mess and the mystery break my heart.”

By Molly McCully Brown | October 23, 2024

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

Liz Jackson on the Irreconcilable Hypocrises of Corporate “Anti-Ableism”

By Liz Jackson | October 22, 2024

Joshua Mohr on Writing a Genre-Blending Post-Modern Punk Rock Saga

Joshua Mohr on Writing a Genre-Blending Post-Modern Punk Rock Saga

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Saint the Terrifying”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 22, 2024

The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

Aditi Machado on the Literary Power of Food Descriptions

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