“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

By Maureen Sun | September 5, 2024

I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 5, 2024

Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 5, 2024

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Creation Lake”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 4, 2024

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Megan Pinto on Mindfulness and Contemplation as Literary Practice

By Megan Pinto | September 4, 2024

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

By Bryan VanDyke | September 4, 2024

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Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay | September 4, 2024

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

Fashionably Monochrome Mammals: On the Pleasures of Watching Skunks

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How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

Josephine Quinn on the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

By Josephine Quinn | September 4, 2024

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's <em>Joe Gould's Secret</em>

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 4, 2024

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Post-Apocalyptic Epic Fantasy and Speculative Swashbucklers From Andrea Stewart, Catherynne M. Valente, and More

By Natalie Zutter | September 3, 2024

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

Caroline Carlson Shares What to Pack in Your Kids' Backpack This Month

By Caroline Carlson | September 3, 2024

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> and <em>The Fortress of Solitude</em>

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

“There has always been this energy, back-of-the-store energy... Lethem has channeled that energy.”

By Charles Yu | September 3, 2024

Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

The Author of “Creation Lake” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Rachel Kushner | September 3, 2024

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Raymond Antrobus, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kinsale Drake, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | September 3, 2024

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