The Creepy Dissonance of Reading <em>Trick Mirror</em> in a 'Self-Care' Book Club

The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a 'Self-Care' Book Club

Ruth Madievsky: Snacks! Facials! Corporate Feminism?

By Ruth Madievsky | October 31, 2019

Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

On the Genius of Seinfeld and Jennifer Egan

By Kevin Wilson | October 31, 2019

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

By Troy Rondinone | October 31, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in October

By Literary Hub | October 31, 2019

What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

Cinelle Barnes on Raising a Brown Girl Who Believes She Can Be Anything

By Cinelle Barnes | October 30, 2019

Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s <em>Othello</em>

Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s Othello

Aatif Rashid on Edward Said, Ayad Akhtar, and
Depictions of Violent Brown Men

By Aatif Rashid | October 30, 2019

Best Reviewed
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  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

The Honorable Mentions for the 2019 Reading Women Award

By Reading Women | October 30, 2019

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

By Eric Newman | October 29, 2019

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

By Reyna Grande | October 29, 2019

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From <em>Charlotte's Web</em>

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte's Web

Erin Wisti on E.B. White's Classic of Radical Decency

By Erin Wisti | October 28, 2019

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

Charlie Tyson on the Philosophy of Idleness and Imagining the Impossible

By Charlie Tyson | October 28, 2019

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About<br> Being Human

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk

By Cristina Bacchilega | October 25, 2019

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a<br> Post-Truth Age

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

Jana Prikryl and Joanna Kavenna in Conversation

By Joanna Kavenna | October 25, 2019

The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

The Late Glenn O'Brien on Why People Think Artists Should Suffer

By Glenn O'Brien | October 25, 2019

H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

The Author of The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep Speaks with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | October 25, 2019

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Mick Stevens, and More

By Bob Eckstein | October 24, 2019

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