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    Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

    By Ken Babstock  January 4, 2023
    On Craft

    On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

    By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
    First Draft

    Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2023
    Otherppl

    “It Was Like Jumping from a Cliff.” Dorthe Nors on Taking Quantum Leaps and Buying a House

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 4, 2023
    new books tuesday

    12 new books to kick off your 2023 reading.

    By Katie Yee  January 3, 2023
    Grief

    How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

    By Tracey Rose Peyton  January 3, 2023
    Read This Watch That

    What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
    Ukraine

    “My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

    By José Vergara  January 3, 2023
    First Draft

    Peter Orner on Looking for “Solace in Remembering” and His Pursuit of Chronology

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Susanne Pari on Iran’s Rich History of Feminist Rebellion

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 3, 2023
    Craft and Criticism

    Past Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize Reflect on Their Year in Reading

    By Literary Hub  January 1, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2022, with Emily Temple and Katie Yee

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 29, 2022
    Book Dreams

    24 Book Recommendations from the Guests of Book Dreams

    By Book Dreams  December 28, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 26, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

    By Judith Thurman  December 23, 2022
    Gift Guide

    23 Great Books to Give As Gifts, According to Booksellers

    By Katie Yee  December 23, 2022
    Christmas

    Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  December 23, 2022
    In Memoriam

    “I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

    By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 22, 2022
    Loneliness

    Just in Time for the Holidays: 5 Books To Read For When You’re Lonely

    By Claire Alexander  December 22, 2022
    African Literature

    Cameroonian Anglophone Literature: Peripheral, Prophetic, and Radical

    By Nchanji Njamnsi  December 22, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Simone White is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 22, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    The Top 2022 Reads with Sarah and Christopher

    By So Many Damn Books  December 22, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2022
    The Literary Journal Archives

    Big Names in Little Magazines: On Thomas Pynchon’s Very First Literary Journal Appearance

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 21, 2022
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