How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life

How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life

E.K. Schrader on Ten Years Without Max Ritvo

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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

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In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

Maris Kreizman on the Need For Literary Friction

By Maris Kreizman | August 20, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Something is off in J.D. Vance’s new memoir.”

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse

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How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

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The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

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11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

Anne E. Fernald Recommends Tove Jansson, Katie Kitamura, Ntozake Shange, and More

By Anne E. Fernald | August 19, 2026

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Florence Hazrat on the Contentious History of a (Perfect) Literary Tool

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Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

The Author of Dèy Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | August 18, 2026

Why Thoreau and <em>Walden</em> Resonate With Chinese Youth

Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth

Julia Du Explores the Impact of an Iconic Work of American Literature on Contemporary China

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Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on <em>Flight to Canada</em> at 50

Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on Flight to Canada at 50

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Everything But the Burden: </br>Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

Everything But the Burden:
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