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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in February

By Literary Hub | February 28, 2020

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

The Films of Dario Argento as a Metaphor for Illness

By Lonely Christopher | February 28, 2020

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

Zee Francis Goes Deep Into the Subtext of Willa Cather's My Ántonia

By Zee Francis | February 28, 2020

Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck's Lessons in Justice and Power

Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck's Lessons in Justice and Power

The California-Born Singer Reflects on an Iconic American Writer

By Literary Hub | February 27, 2020

A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson's Life

A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson's Life

“I have worlds of things to tell you, and my pen is not swift enough...”

By Martha Ackmann | February 26, 2020

A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of <em>The Price of Salt</em>

A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

Antonia Angress on a Very Close Reading of the Patricia Highsmith Classic

By Antonia Angress | February 25, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

By Gretel Ehrlich | February 24, 2020

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

By Jean Genet | February 24, 2020

Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

By Chelsea Leu | February 21, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

Julian Barnes on Fake News, Religious Tension, and "Gangster Imperialism" Abounded

By Julian Barnes | February 18, 2020

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

But Probably Not For Your Loneliness

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

Michelle Chihara Digs Through the Didion Family's Land Records

By Michelle Chihara | February 14, 2020

The Graveyard Talks Back: <br>Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

The Graveyard Talks Back:
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

What is the Role of the Writer in a Time of Rising Nationalism?

By Arundhati Roy | February 12, 2020

We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill's World

We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill's World

Kristin Iversen Talks to the Author of Weather

By Kristin Iversen | February 11, 2020

Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

"In time, they seemed written for me."

By Vivian Gornick | February 11, 2020

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