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On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

Lara Williams Considers Writing by Margaret Atwood, Han Kang,
Roxane Gay, M.F.K. Fisher, and More

By Lara Williams | July 10, 2019

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

Madeline ffitch on the Politics of "Conflict" in the Stories We Tell

By Madeline ffitch | July 9, 2019

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

Barbara Bourland on Value and Excess in the Art Market

By Barbara Bourland | July 2, 2019

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

An Exhibit of His Life and Works is on Display through September

By Ted Widmer | July 2, 2019

Best Reviewed
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

On the Canny Cro-Magnon Woman in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children Series

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

On <em>Myra Breckinridge</em> and the Life of Gore Vidal

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

Camille Paglia Unpacks the Mores of a Different Era

By Camille Paglia | June 27, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

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