One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

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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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Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking

Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking

“From this boredom, words flow. I can’t stop them.”

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On the Lit Hub Podcast: Pulitzer Intrigue, Sinners and Vampires, and the NEA

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Pulitzer Intrigue, Sinners and Vampires, and the NEA

Featuring Marie-Helene Bertino, Meg Reid, and Drew Broussard

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Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

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Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Amie Souza Reilly Reimagines the Fairytale’s Sorceress, Surrealism, and Motherhood

By Amie Souza Reilly | May 9, 2025

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Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

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From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

Natasha Lester Recommends Ariel Lawhon, Emma Pei Yin, Anne Sebba, and More

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

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By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

How Mo Ogrodnik Depicts Violence Against Women from Multiple Perspectives

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Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 8, 2025

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

Chill Subs’ Benjamin Davis Looks into the Economics of Submission Fees

By Benjamin Davis | May 7, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

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Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Randee Dawn Explores Approaches to Trunk Fiction

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