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Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

Ron Rosenbaum on the Integral Role of Love in Literature and in Life

By Ron Rosenbaum | September 19, 2024

Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 19, 2024

Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 19, 2024

Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the Power of the French Sociological Memoir

By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart | September 18, 2024

The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

Lisa Yaszek on the Woman Known as Francis Stevens, an Early Female Pioneer of American Genre Fiction

By Lisa Yaszek | September 18, 2024

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Rachel Schwartzmann Allows Herself to Write and Live More Slowly and to Learn from Her Typos

By Rachel Schwartzmann | September 18, 2024

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The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

By Emily Temple | September 17, 2024

Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

By Jane Ciabattari | September 17, 2024

For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

By Literary Hub | September 17, 2024

Rumaan Alam! Gay Shakespeare! How Elon Musk killed Twitter! 26 new books out today.

Rumaan Alam! Gay Shakespeare! How Elon Musk killed Twitter! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 17, 2024

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Nicholas Delbanco Remembers the Living and Dead Who Passed Through the Bennington Writing Seminars

By Nicholas Delbanco | September 16, 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 Elizabeth Strout, Ronald Reagan, Roddy Doyle, and More

By Book Marks | September 13, 2024

In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

Host Drew Broussard Gets the Inside Scoop from the Lit Hub Staff

By The Lit Hub Podcast | September 13, 2024

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

Anna Johnston on How to Write Aging Characters without Valorizing Youth

By Anna Johnston | September 13, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She will not let us have the happy ending we might prefer.”

By Book Marks | September 12, 2024

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Elizabeth Shick Recommends Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Karen Connelly, Charmaine Craig and More

By Elizabeth Shick | September 12, 2024

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