“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

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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

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“While reading ‘Next to Heaven,’ I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die.”

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Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Or, How to Do a Lot in a Little Space

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On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

featuring Leila Green Little, Anthony Aycock, Benjamin Davis, and Drew Broussard

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

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How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

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Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

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Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

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Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

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Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

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Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

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“I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

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Why America Can’t Get Enough of <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

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Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

“The memory of these fragments is always created, as a matter of reconstruction. And creation is always hope.”

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Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

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