<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Reflection and Refraction

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

By The Cosmic Library | May 14, 2025

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

By Lincoln Michel | May 13, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Lincoln Michel, Susanna Kwan, Domenica Ruta and More

By Teddy Wayne | May 13, 2025

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Words of Dr. L.and Other Stories”

By Jane Ciabattari | May 13, 2025

Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 13, 2025

What If It <em>Is</em> Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

David Renton Rereads Lewis and Roth in a New Era of Authoritarianism

By David Renton | May 12, 2025

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

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Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

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By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

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Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

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Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

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