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Where Are All the Matriarchies in Fiction?

Where Are All the Matriarchies in Fiction?

G.R. Macallister on a Curiously Neglected Subgenre

By G.R. Macallister | April 18, 2022

Linda H. Davis on the Literary Fame and Notorious Exploits of Stephen Crane

Linda H. Davis on the Literary Fame and Notorious Exploits of Stephen Crane

This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 18, 2022

On the Romance and Wonder of Victorian Science

On the Romance and Wonder of Victorian Science

Nicole Yunger Halpern in Praise of an Expansive, Fantastical Approach to Knowledge

By Nicole Yunger Halpern | April 18, 2022

When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do

When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do

Steve Edwards: “A story is a negotiation between what might have been, what is, and what still could be.”

By Steve Edwards | April 15, 2022

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Margo Jefferson, Delia Ephron, and More

By Book Marks | April 15, 2022

Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination

Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination

Antonia Pont Really, Truly, Definitely Does Not Like the “P” Word

By Antonia Pont | April 14, 2022

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  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

How Dostoevsky's Exile in Siberia Led to Four of the Greatest Novels in Literature

By Book Dreams | April 14, 2022

How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

By Alicia Puglionesi | April 14, 2022

Learning from the Work Muriel Rukeyser Left Unfinished

By Rowena Kennedy-Epstein | April 14, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Books by Samantha Hunt, Delia Ephron, Margo Jefferson, and More

By Book Marks | April 14, 2022

“I Trust Nothing But Music.” Valzhyna Mort on the Patient Listening of Writing Poetry

“I Trust Nothing But Music.” Valzhyna Mort on the Patient Listening of Writing Poetry

The Author of Music for the Dead and Resurrected in Conversation with Michael Prior

By Michael Prior | April 13, 2022

“I think I might have gone on drawing forever.” Annie Hartnett on Giving the Gift of Art

“I think I might have gone on drawing forever.” Annie Hartnett on Giving the Gift of Art

The Author of Unlikely Animals on Creating Connection Instead of Commodity

By Annie Hartnett | April 13, 2022

Why Sex Scenes Are Not Only Feminist, But Necessary

Why Sex Scenes Are Not Only Feminist, But Necessary

Elissa Sussman on the Literature of Pleasure and Joy

By Elissa Sussman | April 13, 2022

In Praise of Dysfunctional Heroines

In Praise of Dysfunctional Heroines

Dawn Winter on Celebrating Women Who Defy Expectations

By Dawn Winter | April 13, 2022

21 new books hitting shelves this week.

21 new books hitting shelves this week.

By Katie Yee | April 12, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: Melissa Chadburn on the Books She’s Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: Melissa Chadburn on the Books She’s Reading Now and Next

The First in a New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | April 12, 2022

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