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    Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

    By History of Literature  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Revisiting the Brontës… Through Branwell’s Reputed Affair

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    Reading

    Will Self: How Should We Read?

    By Will Self  January 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

    By Melissa Albert  January 13, 2021
    World War II

    Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
    World War II

    By Richard Greene  January 13, 2021
    Thresholds

    Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

    By Thresholds   January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    NewberyTart

    What Makes a Teachable YA Book? When It Shows Teens to Think for Themselves

    By NewberyTart   January 13, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Reality Behind Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Stories

    By Lit Century   January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Math

    How to Read Ulysses
    By the Numbers

    By Eric Bulson  January 11, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Nathaniel Hawthorne Distinguished Between ‘Novels’ and ‘Romances’

    By History of Literature  January 11, 2021
    Trauma

    The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

    By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
    Thresholds

    Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

    By Thresholds   January 7, 2021
    The Hub

    ‘TS Eliot is the worst living poet.’ Literary burn book featuring Virginia Woolf up for sale.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2021
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2021
    Literary History

    On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

    By Nuala O'Connor  January 5, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

    By Peter Ho Davies  January 5, 2021
    Lit Century

    Can We Stop Underrating
    Shirley Jackson Now?

    By Lit Century   January 5, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Lit Disco’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

    By Literary Disco  January 5, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We’re Brave Enough to Look

    By Jerrine Tan  January 4, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

    By History of Literature  January 4, 2021
    Best of the Year

    Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    The Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 29, 2020
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
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