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Why Was Shakespeare Wary of <br>Writing About Religion?

Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
Writing About Religion?

He Would've Made a Terrible Puritan...

By Jonathan Bate | April 30, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite <br>Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite
Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in April

By Literary Hub | April 30, 2019

Leila Slimani Doesn't Care If <br>You're Uncomfortable

Leila Slimani Doesn't Care If
You're Uncomfortable

The Author of The Perfect Nanny Sits Down with John Freeman

By John Freeman | April 29, 2019

David Means on the World As<br> Endless Inspiration

David Means on the World As
Endless Inspiration

"Art arrives out of a tension between the private and the public..."

By David Means | April 29, 2019

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

Two Tyrants, Two Poets, and a Long Pilgrimage to Milan

By Marion Turner | April 29, 2019

Monster or Marvel? A Disabled Life in<br> a Superhero Universe

Monster or Marvel? A Disabled Life in
a Superhero Universe

Amanda Leduc on Captain Marvel and Fantasies of the Perfectable Body

By Amanda Leduc | April 26, 2019

Best Reviewed
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William Faulkner's grudging, misogynistic fan letter to Anita Loos

By Emily Temple | April 26, 2019

How to Write a Book in Ten Days

By Meg Elison | April 26, 2019

Can a Little Bit of Data Make Parenting Easier?

By Literary Hub | April 26, 2019

On the Importance of Getting the Science Right in Your Novel

On the Importance of Getting the Science Right in Your Novel

When the World of Fact Helps Fiction Do Its Job

By Andrea Rothman | April 26, 2019

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of <em>Giovanni's Room</em>

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni's Room

"If France proffered him love, it also bathed him in a peculiar shade of loneliness."

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2019

The Real Life Castaway Behind Robinson Crusoe Actually <em>Asked</em> to Be Dropped Off

The Real Life Castaway Behind Robinson Crusoe Actually Asked to Be Dropped Off

Revisiting a Colonialist Classic—and Myths That Just Won't Die—300 Years On

By Delaney Nolan | April 25, 2019

Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

Mesha Maren Returns Home in Sugar Run

By Zachary Oren Smith | April 24, 2019

What I Learned from Keeping a List<br> of Every Book I Read

What I Learned from Keeping a List
of Every Book I Read

Not Shockingly, an Awful Lot of Men

By Pamela Nadell | April 24, 2019

Scenes From a Marriage: <br>Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda

Scenes From a Marriage:
Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda

Blake Hazard Introduces Tender Is the Night

By Blake Hazard | April 24, 2019

The Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare's True Identity

The Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare's True Identity

Baconians, Oxfordians, Marlovians, Derbyites, Rutlanders, Groupists. Oh My.

By Stuart Kells | April 23, 2019

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