I Loathe Very Online Writers: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Loathe Very Online Writers: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine

Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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“What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a Poem by Mohamed Abdelbari

“What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a Poem by Mohamed Abdelbari

Translated and Introduced by Huda Fakhreddine

By Mohammad Abdelbari and Huda Fakhreddine | December 18, 2024

Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!

Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!

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Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

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The Ultimate Best Books of 2024 List

The Ultimate Best Books of 2024 List

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Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

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Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

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Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

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The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

Ian Williams Offers Less Meta, Less Rule-Based Ways to Approach Difficult Conversations

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The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s <em>The Sleepers</em>

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Karla Kelsey Considers Questions of Gender, Agency and Freedom on Both Sides of the Photographer’s Lens

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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

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How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

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Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

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