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An Ode to Acknowledgements

An Ode to Acknowledgements

Sarah Wheeler on the Joy of Learning About the Village Behind a Book

By Sarah Wheeler | January 12, 2024

Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency

Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency

Celine Saintclare Recommends Mona Awad, Emma Cline, Frances Cha, and More

By Celine Saintclare | January 12, 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 New Titles by Hisham Matar, Álvaro Enrigue, Rachel Slade, and More

By Book Marks | January 12, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“There is not a banal sentence or purple patch to be found in this book, which only a poet could have written.”

By Book Marks | January 11, 2024

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

Katie Peterson Recommends Work by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and More

By Katie Peterson | January 11, 2024

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 11, 2024

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The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

By Bécquer Seguín | January 10, 2024

Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

By History of Literature | January 10, 2024

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

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

Featuring Hisham Matar, Aube Rey Lescure, Nathaniel Stein and More

By Teddy Wayne | January 9, 2024

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Cold Victory”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 9, 2024

22 new books out today!

22 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 9, 2024

Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

Marie Doezema Explores the Icy Wilderness of New Parenthood in a Pandemic

By Marie Doezema | January 8, 2024

All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

Christiana Spens Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward, and More

By Christiana Spens | January 8, 2024

Beyond Resolutions: A Closer Look at “The New Year Poem” as an Act of Resistance

Beyond Resolutions: A Closer Look at “The New Year Poem” as an Act of Resistance

Stephanie Niu on Poems by Kim Addonizio, Jane Hirshfield, June Jordan and More

By Stephanie Niu | January 8, 2024

Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

The Translators of Mikeas Sánchez's “How to Be a Good Savage” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | January 8, 2024

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