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Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

The Windham-Campbell Prize Winner on Works by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Westlake, and More

By Lucy Sante | May 13, 2026

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

Maïa Hruska Considers the Act of Writing and Translating After Auschwitz

By Maïa Hruska | May 13, 2026

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

“The hazy, contradictory landscape of Goodman’s life was the truth of her existence.”

By Courtney Ann LaFaive | May 13, 2026

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose

Geoffrey D. Morrison on Learning and Teaching Languages As a Fiction Writer

By Geoffrey D. Morrison | May 12, 2026

On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family

On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family

Deborah Lutz Considers the Impact of a Brother’s Absence

By Deborah Lutz | May 12, 2026

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos on Honoring Her Husband’s Literary Legacy

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos on Honoring Her Husband’s Literary Legacy

“It has been more than a writing exercise for me. It has been an unexpected pilgrimage to the heart of our union.”

By Lori Carlson-Hijuelos | May 12, 2026

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

By Teddy Wayne | May 12, 2026

Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

By Jane Ciabattari | May 12, 2026

Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | May 12, 2026

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

Ella Frances Sanders Explores Words About Weather

By Ella Frances Sanders | May 11, 2026

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions

Suzanne Berne Considers the Story As a Relationship Between Writers and Readers

By Suzanne Berne | May 11, 2026

Schiaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of <em>The Girls of Slender Means</em>

Schiaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of The Girls of Slender Means

Lilian Pizzichini Looks for The Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Schiaparelli Exhibition

By Lilian Pizzichini | May 11, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s <em>Mrs Dalloway</em> is Published.

This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is Published.

The Origin of a Masterpiece

By Literary Hub | May 11, 2026

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel

Christiana Spens: “Even when you have left an island, it lingers on in your imagination as a half-real and half-made-up place.”

By Christiana Spens | May 11, 2026

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

Featuring Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Siri Hustvedt, and more

By Book Marks | May 8, 2026

Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick

Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick

A Lesson from a Long Career of Magazine Writing

By Tom Junod | May 8, 2026

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