The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

Garth Risk Hallberg on the Dysfunctional Fathers of the Western Canon

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Rachel Cusk’s repeated attempts to exterminate the novel while still writing one are genuinely impressive."

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Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Xinran in Conversation with the Author of "Tiananmen Square"

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Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

Adam Ehrlich Sachs in Conversation with the Author of “The Material”

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Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy

Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

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Was Jane Austen Actually the Ultimate Anti-Romantic Novelist?

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Autopsies, Necrophiliacs, and Werewolf Pandemics: Puloma Ghosh on Translating Grief into Literary Horror

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Deirdre Madden on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

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Bill Eville on Fatherhood

Bill Eville on Fatherhood

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

Robin Sloan on Creating an Expansive and Immersive Sci-Fi Universe

Robin Sloan on Creating an Expansive and Immersive Sci-Fi Universe

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Moonbound"

By Jane Ciabattari | June 11, 2024

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

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

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Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas

Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 11, 2024

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