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Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Ways of Connecting: On Writing That Marries the Psychological, the Personal and the Political

Faraaz Mahomed Discusses His Debut Novel Mother/Land With Damon Galgut

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In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse

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How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction

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The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

M.C. Mah Considers the Work of Making and Waiting

By M. C. Mah | August 19, 2026

11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art

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On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Florence Hazrat on the Contentious History of a (Perfect) Literary Tool

By Florence Hazrat | August 18, 2026

On Grief and Growing Up in</br> <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>

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The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.

By Emily Temple | August 18, 2026

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

The Author of Dèy Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of A Tender Age

By Jane Ciabattari | August 18, 2026

Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

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