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    Reading Lists

    Perusing Pets: A Reading List of Books Where Animal Companions Steal the Show

    By Holly James  August 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

    By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Miles Johnson on The Secret World of International Crime

    By Keen On  August 3, 2023
    Literary Friendships

    Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

    By Julie Schumacher  August 2, 2023
    Inspiration

    J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

    By J. Vanessa Lyon  August 2, 2023
    Rock N Roll

    It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

    By David Hepworth  August 2, 2023
    Experimental Fiction

    When Cause Doesn’t Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

    By Rebekah Bergman  August 2, 2023
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Divine Heists, Deep-Sea Discoveries, and Climate Utopias: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  August 2, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

    By Literary Hub  August 2, 2023
    Keen On

    Laura Warrell on How Novels Can Teach Us To Love

    By Keen On  August 2, 2023
    Keen On

    David Kamp on Getting Us Intimate with Nature

    By Keen On  August 2, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Ben Okri Reads From Tiger Work

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 2, 2023
    Relationships

    Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

    By Bee Sacks  August 1, 2023
    Food

    On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

    By Michelle Wildgen  August 1, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jimin Han on Filling Narrative Blank Spaces With Memory and Imagination

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 1, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

    By Literary Hub  August 1, 2023
    Physics

    The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

    By Mindy Mejia  August 1, 2023
    Poetry

    Contemporary Jobs in Contemporary Poetry: 7 New Books to Read in August

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  August 1, 2023
    Read Smart

    25 Years of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    By Read Smart  August 1, 2023
    Keen On

    Bethanne Patrick Recommends Hot Reads for the Heat Wave

    By Keen On  August 1, 2023
    Keen On

    Lloyd Devereux Richards on Being Discovered on TikTok

    By Keen On  August 1, 2023
    Queer Literature

    How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

    By Shastri Akella  July 31, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

    By David Lipsky  July 31, 2023
    Indian Literature

    Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri’s The Immortals

    By Pankaj Mishra  July 31, 2023
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