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The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

Featuring Anne Enright, Lorrie Moore, Zadie Smith, Anne Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2023

Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing <em>Leave the World Behind</em> Come to Life on Screen

Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

“I had a debilitating crush on Ethan Hawke as a teenager and now he’s playing a character I created. Deranged!”

By Rumaan Alam | December 8, 2023

Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

Brooke Wentz Talks to the Legendary Artist about Art School, Eavesdropping, and the Avant-Garde

By Brooke Wentz | December 8, 2023

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Debbie Urbanski on the Possibility and Promise of Human-Machine Creative Collaboration

By Debbie Urbanski | December 8, 2023

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

“The words should not serve the subject. The subject should serve the words.”

By Richard Hugo | December 8, 2023

Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

By Jonny Diamond | December 7, 2023

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Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

By Book Marks | December 7, 2023

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

By Jessica Moore | December 7, 2023

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 7, 2023

Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 7, 2023

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Cory Doctorow, Malaika Jabali, Angela Saini, and More

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | December 6, 2023

My Year in Reading Children’s Books

My Year in Reading Children’s Books

Sara B. Franklin Recommends Cecilia Ruiz, Steve McCarthy, and Many More

By Sara B. Franklin | December 6, 2023

<em>Eileen</em> Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Eileen Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Emmeline Clein Digs in to the New Adaptation, from Page to Screen

By Emmeline Clein | December 6, 2023

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

From the Collection Glossolalia

By Marlon Hacla | December 6, 2023

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