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Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

“To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

Featuring Adam Colman, Molly Odintz, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 4, 2025

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | April 3, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

Best Reviewed
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More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story

By Amy Shearn | April 1, 2025

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”

By Lee Martin | April 1, 2025

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Missing Time</em> by Ari Brostoff

A Small Press Book We Love:
Missing Time by Ari Brostoff

By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

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