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What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

Maris Kreizman on the Realities of Seeing Your Book Out Into the World

By Maris Kreizman | April 10, 2025

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States

By Ariel Courage | April 10, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”

By Book Marks | April 10, 2025

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

“PEN America’s defense and advocacy must be rendered vigorously and equitably, regardless of who sits in power.”

By Dinaw Mengestu | April 10, 2025

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Uttama Kirit Patel Recommends Constance Debré, Julie Phillips, Anna Hogeland, and More

By Uttama Kirit Patel | April 10, 2025

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | April 10, 2025

Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 10, 2025

Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

By Meredith Hambrock | April 9, 2025

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

Daniel Mendelsohn Considers the Legacy of a Civilization-Making Epic

By Daniel Mendelsohn | April 9, 2025

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”

By Sarah Viren | April 9, 2025

How Lewis Michaux Channeled a Passion For Knowledge Into Building His Harlem Bookstore

How Lewis Michaux Channeled a Passion For Knowledge Into Building His Harlem Bookstore

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson on Her Great-Uncle's Contribution to the Intellectual Empowerment of Black Communities

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson | April 9, 2025

The Publishing Industry Has a Serious Waste Problem, and It Needs to Stop Now

The Publishing Industry Has a Serious Waste Problem, and It Needs to Stop Now

Bookseller Lucy Kogler Has Some Ideas to Make the Book World a Lot More Sustainable

By Lucy Kogler | April 9, 2025

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

L. Sasha Gora on “The Abandoners,” “The Price of Salt,” and the Stray Mothers of Literature

By L. Sasha Gora | April 8, 2025

Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

The Author of "Authority" Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

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