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Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own

By Douglas Field | November 20, 2024

Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

The Author of “Yoke and Feather” Explores Biblical Stories, Desire, and a Painting by Velázquez

By Jessie Van Eerden | November 20, 2024

How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

Carl Rollyson on the Teenage Years of One of America's Most Famous Female Poets

By Carl Rollyson | November 19, 2024

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

Edwin Frank Considers the Roots of a Nation's Literary Reckoning

By Edwin Frank | November 19, 2024

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

By Traci Brimhall | November 19, 2024

Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! <em>Parks and Rec</em>! 23 new books out today.

Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! Parks and Rec! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 19, 2024

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I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are... not great!

By Jessie Gaynor | November 18, 2024

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

By Oliver Sacks | November 18, 2024

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

By The Lit Hub Podcast | November 15, 2024

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 Richard Price, Joan Didion & Eve Babitz, Katherine Rundell, and More

By Book Marks | November 15, 2024

Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

Dorsía Smith Silva Recommends Craig Santos Perez, Juliana Spahr, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and More

By Dorsia Smith Silva | November 15, 2024

Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 14, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“This savage American novel consumed me, as much as I consumed it.”

By Book Marks | November 14, 2024

My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | November 14, 2024

Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

Padma Viswanathan Imagines Radically Different Paths Her Life Could Have Taken

By Padma Viswanathan | November 14, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Susan Stewart, Taban Lo Liyong, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, and Others

By Diana Arterian | November 14, 2024

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