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A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's <em>Lord Jim at Home</em>

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's Lord Jim at Home

"I didn’t care, and I didn’t worry, but I was suspended, consistently and dramatically, in the mirage of the novel."

By Ottessa Moshfegh | September 14, 2023

What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process

What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process

Carol Dunbar on the Risk and Romance of Working in a Water Tower

By Carol Dunbar | September 14, 2023

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

The Authors of Profiles in Ignorance and The Year of Living Biblically in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 14, 2023

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 14, 2023

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 14, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"

By Book Marks | September 14, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
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  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's Fantastic Four

By Jerry Craft | September 13, 2023

James Reich on Existential Fiction and the Imprint of Nature

By James Reich | September 13, 2023

On the Generative Nostalgia of Old Manuscripts

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 13, 2023

A Small Parenthesis: How Gardens and Stories Can Create Space to Breathe

A Small Parenthesis: How Gardens and Stories Can Create Space to Breathe

Juan Cárdenas Considers the Possibilities of Closed Spaces

By Juan Cárdenas | September 13, 2023

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Eliza Clark, Vauhini Vara, Joshua Mohr and More

By Teddy Wayne | September 12, 2023

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of <em>Self-Portrait in Green</em>

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

Jordan Stump On Translating Marie NDiaye

By Jordan Stump | September 12, 2023

Christian Kiefer on Sewing a Quilt of Distinct Narrative Voices

Christian Kiefer on Sewing a Quilt of Distinct Narrative Voices

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Heart of It All

By Jane Ciabattari | September 12, 2023

Naomi Klein on Running Towards the Burning Building

Naomi Klein on Running Towards the Burning Building

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | September 12, 2023

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Michaela Cavanagh Reads Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening

By Michaela Cavanagh | September 11, 2023

How Jonathan Raban's <em>Passage to Juneau</em> Decolonizes Nature Writing

How Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Robert MacFarlane on Indigenous Pantheons, the Western Notion of the Sublime, and Raban's Disruptive Language

By Robert Macfarlane | September 11, 2023

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