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    End of Year Lists

    The 36 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 27, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2021

    By Literary Hub  December 27, 2021
    Freeman's

    81 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2021

    By Literary Hub  December 27, 2021
    Keen On

    Sarah Burns on the Fabulous Life of Perkins Harnly

    By Keen On  December 26, 2021
    Keen On

    Larry Downes on Taking Advantage of Modern Technology in Business

    By Keen On  December 24, 2021
    Keen On

    Roslyn Fuller on the Future of Democracy

    By Keen On  December 24, 2021
    Joan Didion

    Remembering Joan Didion

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2021
    Best of the Year

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Jane Smiley on Her Writing Process, Beloved Pets, and Writing in Paris

    By Book Dreams  December 23, 2021
    Migration

    Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

    By Jill Stoner  December 23, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 8 Best Book Covers of December

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Jen Spyra on the Art of Comedic Escalation

    By The Maris Review  December 23, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice

    By Harold Bloom  December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

    By Nikita Lalwani  December 23, 2021
    Literary Tourism

    Delving Into New Dreams: Finding Morocco in Books and Films

    By Helen Ranger  December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    Pandemics

    Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  December 23, 2021
    Open Source

    “I’m Black and I’m Proud.” On a Half a Century of Black Anthems (and More!)

    By Open Source  December 23, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    We Have Ways of Making You Talk on Japan’s Role in the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 23, 2021
    New Books Network

    Greed and Skullduggery: Andrea Penrose Discusses Her Latest Title in the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series

    By New Books Network  December 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Riccardino by Andrea Camilieri, Translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Read by Grover Gardner

    By Behind the Mic   December 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Michael Kimmage on the Western Ideals That Once Shaped America

    By Keen On  December 23, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    “It Can Be a Wild Story, but Everything Has to Feel Real.” A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2021
    Journalism

    When New Journalism Was New: Gay Talese on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Sinatra

    By Gay Talese  December 22, 2021
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