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    Fatale is the French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now.

     
    By James Folta  November 26, 2024
    Palestine

    On the Enduring Importance of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine

    By Alexander Durie  November 25, 2024
    Gaza

    Read Jody Chan’s Boycott
    Giller Speech

    By Literary Hub  November 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Comedy failed us, again.

    By James Folta  November 21, 2024
    Billionaires

    Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

    By Maris Kreizman  November 21, 2024
    2024 Election

    On the Fragility of American Democracy… and the Power of Young Black Activists to Save It

    By Rita Omokha  November 21, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Trump Administration

    I read the government graphic novels Elon Musk thinks are a waste of money.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2024
    AI

    HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.

    By Drew Broussard  November 18, 2024
    The Royal Family

    Victoria’s Secret: How a Teenage Girl Became the Queen of England

    By Anne Somerset  November 18, 2024
    Palestine

    What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

    Aaron Boehmer on Coates’s Journalistic Politic

    By Aaron Boehmer  November 25, 2024
    Being Trans

    Waking Up Trans in Trump’s America

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 15, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    The Hub

    The Onion has bought InfoWars. (And no, this isn’t a joke.)

    By Brittany Allen  November 14, 2024
    The Hub

    Want to know how libraries fared on the ballot? This cool non-profit made a chart.

    By Brittany Allen  November 13, 2024
    MAGA

    Per his own book, Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee is down for Civil War II

    By Jonny Diamond  November 13, 2024
    Memoir

    They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

    By Mirza Waheed  November 13, 2024
    Protest Art

    A Gesture Larger Than Death: On Bill T. Jones’s AIDS Elegy “Still/Here” at 30

    By Jen Benka  November 13, 2024
    Black Activism

    Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

    “Books and stories can be a light that leads toward the pursuit of truth in what might be dark times.”

    By W. Ralph Eubanks  November 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Six newsletters to get you through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  November 11, 2024
    Trump Administration

    JD Vance Quoted One of Cormac McCarthy’s Most Evil Characters to Make Some Asinine Point

    By James Folta  November 11, 2024
    American Politics

    Do Not Obey in Advance: On the Importance of Mutual Aid in These Cruel American Times

    By Jonny Diamond  November 8, 2024
    Safety Nets

    What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?

    Steven W. Thrasher Looks Back at America’s Brief Experiment in True Government Care

    By Steven W. Thrasher  November 8, 2024
    Class

    How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

    By Jaydra Johnson  November 8, 2024
    Activism

    But Can It Change Anything? What Artists and Social Movements Can Learn From Each Other

    By Amber Massie-Blomfield  November 7, 2024
    The Hub

    Is Donald Trump going to sue the media into complicity and silence?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 15, 2024
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