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The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

Andrew Ervin on Gormenghast and The Big Book of Fantasy

By Andrew Ervin | September 9, 2019

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 9, 2019

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Rosamond S. King on the Contradictions of Literary Gratitude

By Rosamond S. King | September 9, 2019

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

A Close Reading of Christie's 80th book, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Slavoj Žižek

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

On Charles S. Wright's 1960s Novels of Societal Rejects

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Kim Adrian on My Struggle's Experimental Vision

By Kim Adrian | September 6, 2019

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A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

By Benjamin Markovits | September 6, 2019

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

By Hay Festival | September 6, 2019

Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

By Olga Zilberbourg | September 6, 2019

Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

RIP Paule Marshall, 1929-2019

By Charles Johnson | September 5, 2019

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

From the City of Samurai to the Gardens of Nobility

By Anna Sherman | September 4, 2019

Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

Meredith Talusan on the Complexity of Telling
Filipino Immigrant Stories

By Meredith Talusan | September 4, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Goodnight Moon</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Goodnight Moon

if something ate him."">"Could be improved if something replied. Would be perfect
if something ate him."

By Emily Temple | September 3, 2019

Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My <em>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl</em>?

Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl?

Janet Fitch on Finding a Real Coming-of-Age Tale

By Janet Fitch | September 3, 2019

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 August

By Emily Firetog | August 30, 2019

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Tom Lutz on Where the Love of Books Can Lead

By Tom Lutz | August 30, 2019

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