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Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?
Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters
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Chris Cohen
| December 11, 2025
What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025
Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was
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Maris Kreizman
| December 11, 2025
“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness
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Chronicle Books
| December 11, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Dorothy Allison, Aria Aber, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and More
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Diana Arterian
| December 11, 2025
Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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Fiction Non Fiction
| December 11, 2025
What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”
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Rachel DeWoskin
| December 10, 2025
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The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself
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Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions
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Adrian McKinty
| December 10, 2025
One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel
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Sheldon Costa
| December 10, 2025
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
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Nadia Davids
| December 10, 2025
The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025
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Literary Hub
| December 9, 2025
Why Joan Didion Hated the Police
Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture
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Scott Saul
| December 9, 2025
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Elizabeth McCracken, Nadia Davids, Tarpley Hitt and More
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Teddy Wayne
| December 9, 2025
The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel
To the Lighthouse
Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”
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Colin Dickey
| December 9, 2025
Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s
Berlin Shuffle
Philip Boehm Considers the Contemporary Relevance of a Tale of 1920s Germany
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Philip Boehm
| December 9, 2025
Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!
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Julia Hass
| December 9, 2025
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Against All Odds, Here Are 10 More Crime Movies You Probably Forgot Take Place at Christmas
December 19, 2025
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Olivia Rutigliano
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Inside the World of Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal – on the Page and Screen
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Alex Segura
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