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The 23 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2022

The 23 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2022

Timeless Reading Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

By Emily Temple | November 29, 2022

Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

“Nothing is permanent, especially in a city like New York.”

By Michael Kimmelman | November 29, 2022

In Praise of the Worker-Owned Company (OR: What to Do About Simon and Schuster)

In Praise of the Worker-Owned Company (OR: What to Do About Simon and Schuster)

Nick Fuller Googins Has a Few Suggestions For Corporate Publishing

By Nick Fuller Googins | November 29, 2022

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Bob Blaisdell in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

“The bones / Of many soldiers languish there. / And what of blood, and what of tears?”

By Literary Hub | November 29, 2022

How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Mary-Alice Daniel on the Role of Narrative in Shaping History and Myth

By Mary-Alice Daniel | November 29, 2022

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

By Kay Chronister | November 29, 2022

Weapons of Mass Distraction: How the Republican Party Lost Its Mind After the January 6 Insurrection

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Always on the Clock: On the Writerly Need to Find Ideas in Unexpected Places

By Ethan Joella | November 29, 2022

Angie Cruz on Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences

Angie Cruz on Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | November 29, 2022

Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

Nick Ripatrazone Looks Back at The American Poetry Review, Pleiades, and The Hudson Review

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 29, 2022

“It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching <em>Three’s Company</em> and Writing Her Novel

“It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | November 29, 2022

Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Bruce Davis in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

<em>Friends Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing</em> by Matthew Perry, Read by Matthew Perry

Friends Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, Read by Matthew Perry

The Actor Shares Difficult Truths

By Behind the Mic | November 29, 2022

Maryse Meijer on Training to Be a Bullfighter (Who Will Never Fight Bulls)

Maryse Meijer on Training to Be a Bullfighter (Who Will Never Fight Bulls)

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Maryse Meijer | November 28, 2022

Finding Comfort and Escape in Marcella Hazan’s <em>Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking</em>

Finding Comfort and Escape in Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

A. Cerisse Cohen on the Lessons of a Great Bolognese

By A. Cerisse Cohen | November 28, 2022

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