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Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Steve Paul Remembers a Quiet Giant of American Literature

By Steve Paul | August 16, 2024

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Monica Cardenas on a Literary Antidote to Society's Oppressive Prescription for Motherhood

By Monica Cardenas | August 15, 2024

Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Maris Kreizman on this Fall’s Incredible Crop of Fiction

By Maris Kreizman | August 15, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.”

By Book Marks | August 15, 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 15, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Jim Carrol, Mary Roach, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others

By Diana Arterian | August 15, 2024

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A Literary Road Trip Across America

By Literary Hub | August 14, 2024

“A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

By Snowden Wright | August 14, 2024

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

By Camille Peri | August 13, 2024

Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Sarah Seltzer on Crafting Round Characters, Austen’s Literary Bad Behavior, and Being a Janeite

By Sarah Seltzer | August 12, 2024

Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

In Conversation with the Author of “Transgenesis”

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2024

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

Featuring New Titles by Helen Phillips, Eliza Griswold, Jane Alison, and More

By Book Marks | August 9, 2024

Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em>Life After Kafka</em>

Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

By Alex Zucker | August 9, 2024

When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests

By Nathan Deuel | August 9, 2024

My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 8, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“As in David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet,’ sometimes there are weird men in his closets.”

By Book Marks | August 8, 2024

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