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Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 14, 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Books That Took Home This Year’s Biggest Literary Prizes

By Book Marks | December 14, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Mary Ruefle, Nicole Sealey, Joy Harjo, and More

By Diana Arterian | December 14, 2023

Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

Kelly Marie Coyne on Women Writers, Role Models, and Miss Americana

By Kelly Marie Coyne | December 14, 2023

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 14, 2023

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

Rumena Bužarovska Talks with the Author of The Year of Reading Proust

By Rumena Bužarovska | December 13, 2023

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Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

By History of Literature | December 13, 2023

The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 12, 2023

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus | December 12, 2023

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

“What no one said out loud was that it already did mean something—to other people’s bottom line.”

By Gabrielle Korn | December 12, 2023

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

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

Featuring Ramona Ausubel, Theodore Wheeler, Jade Song and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 12, 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews
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Parul Sehgal on James Ellroy, Merve Emre on Italo Calvino, Namwali Serpell on "hit me" Novels, and More

By Adam Morgan | December 11, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Helen Molesworth on the Uses and Functionality of the Arts and Humanities

By Helen Molesworth | December 11, 2023

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

Natalie Hart on the Urgency of Literature That Brings the Ocean into the Climate Story

By Natalie Hart | December 11, 2023

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

The Author of If You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 11, 2023

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