LitHub Daily: December 19, 2016

LitHub Daily: December 19, 2016

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | December 19, 2016

The Art of a Nation Will Outlast Its Governments

The Art of a Nation Will Outlast Its Governments

In the second of a series, Scott Esposito considers creation as resistance

By Veronica Esposito | December 19, 2016

My Louise Bourgeois

My Louise Bourgeois

Siri Hustvedt on the complex, brilliant, contradictory artist

By Siri Hustvedt | December 19, 2016

Why Is it 'Unrealistic' to Show Women in Power in Fantasy?

Why Is it 'Unrealistic' to Show Women in Power in Fantasy?

Kate Elliott and Ken Liu in conversation

By Literary Hub | December 19, 2016

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

Robin Wasserman, Sarah Hepola, Morgan Jerkins, and More

By Lorraine Berry | December 19, 2016

Minorities Are the Majority

Minorities Are the Majority

Salena Godden on Shade, Belonging, and Growing Up Mixed-Race in Britain

By Salena Godden | December 19, 2016

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Best of the Week: December 12 - 16, 2016

By Lit Hub Daily | December 17, 2016

LitHub Daily: December 16, 2016

By Lit Hub Daily | December 16, 2016

The Best Children's Books Appeal to All Ages

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2016

Joan Didion's Disaffected Literary Descendants

Joan Didion's Disaffected Literary Descendants

On the New Generation of Wayward Daughter Protagonists

By Katie Dobbs | December 16, 2016

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

UVA's Book Traces Project tracks human interactions with physical books

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2016

Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

How Two Writers Responded to the Pressures of an Authoritarian Government

By Nathan Scott McNamara | December 16, 2016

Getting Lost in William Trevor's Private World

Getting Lost in William Trevor's Private World

D. Wystan Owen on the Haunting Intimacy of Trevor's Short Fiction

By D. Wystan Owen | December 16, 2016

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

"In time, his presence in my mind will burn out as a cigar does"

By Pablo Medina | December 16, 2016

Watch a Video about the Beauty of the Literary Barbershop

Watch a Video about the Beauty of the Literary Barbershop

In Ypsilanti, Michigan, one barbershop gives a discount to kids who read

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2016

I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

From Isabel Greenberg's The One Hundred Nights of Hero

By Isabel Greenberg | December 16, 2016

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