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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

By Aditi Machado | October 21, 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 Al Pacino, Mark Haddon, Bob Woodward, and More

By Book Marks | October 18, 2024

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

A Spooky Season Spectacular

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 18, 2024

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Emily J. Orlando Considers Another Creative Side of the Chronicler of the Gilded Age

By Emily J. Orlando | October 18, 2024

The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

Patrick Radden Keefe, Denis Johnson, Beth Macy, and More

By Literary Hub | October 18, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“One of the flattest, most abstract, and least revealing accounts of a life that I’ve probably ever read.”

By Book Marks | October 17, 2024

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  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
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  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

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

By Kristen Arnett | October 17, 2024

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

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | October 17, 2024

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

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

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

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

John Larison Considers the Importance and Responsibility of Writing “the Other”

By John Larison | October 16, 2024

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

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

“In rereading, I feel a clutch of the heart, and tears starting in my eyes.”

By Joyce Carol Oates | October 15, 2024

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

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

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