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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in June

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

The Torture of Being Trapped in an Australian Refugee Detention Center

The Torture of Being Trapped in an Australian Refugee Detention Center

Behrouz Boochani Recounts the Injustices in Manus Island Prison

By Behrouz Boochani | June 28, 2019

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

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

Domenico Starnone on the 20th Anniversary of Interpreter of Maladies

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

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

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

Liza Wieland on Finding Darkness Where So Many Find Light

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

Why David Kirkpatrick Turned on Facebook

Why David Kirkpatrick Turned on Facebook

The Author of Facebook Effect in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 28, 2019

Coming to the Realization That I Might Have PTSD

Coming to the Realization That I Might Have PTSD

Ryan Leigh Dostie on Restlessness and Violence Post-Iraq

By Ryan Leigh Dostie | June 28, 2019

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Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

When Loneliness Leads to Sex Robots: A Study in Teledildonics

By Dianne Araral | June 28, 2019

A Life-Changing Afternoon in Paris With Edmund White

By Michael Carroll | June 28, 2019

Julia Phillips on Writing a Russian Story in an American Voice

Julia Phillips on Writing a Russian Story in an American Voice

The Author of Disappearing Earth on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | June 28, 2019

The 12 Best Book Covers of June

The 12 Best Book Covers of June

Not a Beach in Sight

By Emily Temple | June 27, 2019

Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

"One remark speaks to the dilemma all writers must live with: eternal doubt, the inability to judge the worth of what one has created."

By Paul Auster | June 27, 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

On the Beauty of Math

On the Beauty of Math

Haim Shapira Examines the Poetry of Numbers

By Haim Shapira | June 27, 2019

Irin Carmon and Jay Wexler Talk Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, and More

Irin Carmon and Jay Wexler Talk Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, and More

With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 27, 2019

Julianne Moore on Gun Violence and the Women Fighting to Stop It

Julianne Moore on Gun Violence and the Women Fighting to Stop It

Introducing Moms Demand Action Founder Shannon Watts' Book

By Julianne Moore | June 27, 2019

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