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The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

Jenn Shapland on The Argonauts and Building a Life

By Jenn Shapland | February 10, 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of<br> <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
The Talented Mr. Ripley

"OK, first of all, Ripley is a loser."

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

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Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

By Susan V. Donaldson | February 4, 2020

On <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

Red Newsom Considers the Line Between Experience and Fiction

By Red Newsom | February 3, 2020

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Melissa Mesku Remembers the Author of Problems

By Melissa Mesku | February 3, 2020

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 January

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's Blue-Collar Aristocrats

By Samuel Freedman | January 30, 2020

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider <em>American Dirt</em>

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

By 141 Writers | January 29, 2020

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