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The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

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 Katie Kitamura, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Book Marks | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”

By Book Marks | April 10, 2025

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Uttama Kirit Patel Recommends Constance Debré, Julie Phillips, Anna Hogeland, and More

By Uttama Kirit Patel | April 10, 2025

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  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | April 10, 2025

Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 10, 2025

Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

By Meredith Hambrock | April 9, 2025

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

Daniel Mendelsohn Considers the Legacy of a Civilization-Making Epic

By Daniel Mendelsohn | April 9, 2025

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

Priya Vulchi Considers the Lifespans of Literary and Political Friendships

By Priya Vulchi | April 9, 2025

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”

By Sarah Viren | April 9, 2025

Buffy! Viet Thanh Nguyen! Andrea Long Chu! 23 new books out today.

Buffy! Viet Thanh Nguyen! Andrea Long Chu! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 8, 2025

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”

By Sally Rooney | April 8, 2025

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

L. Sasha Gora on “The Abandoners,” “The Price of Salt,” and the Stray Mothers of Literature

By L. Sasha Gora | April 8, 2025

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