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Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My <br>Parents Can't Read

Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My
Parents Can't Read

Kia Abdullah on Being Herself in Print

By Kia Abdullah | May 1, 2019

On the Great Clarice Lispector

On the Great Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser Introduces The Besieged City

By Benjamin Moser | April 30, 2019

On the Struggle to Become a True<br> Parisian Flaneur

On the Struggle to Become a True
Parisian Flaneur

Ayesegul Savas Unravels a Novel on the City's Streets

By Aysegül Savas | April 30, 2019

On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

Michael Knight Didn't Set Out to Write a Prep School Novel

By Michael Knight | April 30, 2019

Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

In Which Is Discussed Assorted 'Paragons of Debauchery'

By Robert Morrison | April 30, 2019

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

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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite
Stories This Month

By Literary Hub | April 30, 2019

Leila Slimani Doesn't Care If
You're Uncomfortable

By John Freeman | April 29, 2019

David Means on the World As
Endless Inspiration

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

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

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

"I am still rather Victorian in my prejudices . . ."

By Emily Temple | April 26, 2019

How to Write a Book in Ten Days

How to Write a Book in Ten Days

Philip K. Dick Award-Winner Meg Elison On Getting It Done

By Meg Elison | April 26, 2019

Can a Little Bit of Data Make Parenting Easier?

Can a Little Bit of Data Make Parenting Easier?

Emily Oster Talks to Pamela Druckerman About Her "Parenting Book for Economists"

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

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