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

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    Deep Dive

    Joan Didion’s Disaffected Literary Descendants

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

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    Craft

    Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal’s Czechoslovakia

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    Short story writers

    Getting Lost in William Trevor’s Private World

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    Personal Essay

    Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

    By Pablo Medina  December 16, 2016
    Features

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    I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

    By Isabel Greenberg  December 16, 2016
    Did you know?

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    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2016
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    LitHub Daily: December 15, 2016

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    Personal Essay

    Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

    By Jonathan Reiber  December 15, 2016
    Craft

    Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

    By Pedro Almodóvar  December 15, 2016
    In Memoriam

    Basking in Shirley Hazzard’s Pure, Cold Light

    By Mary Duffy  December 15, 2016
    Feature

    Bookselling in the 21st Century: The Perils of Shopping Local

    By Elayna Trucker  December 15, 2016
    Criticism

    Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

    By Emily Harnett  December 15, 2016
    Conversations

    Shirley Hazzard and a Lost Literary Intelligentsia

    By John Freeman  December 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Saving Refugees, One Boat at a Time

    By Emma Jane Kirby  December 15, 2016
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    LitHub Daily: December 14, 2016

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    Criticism

    In Praise of Zadie Smith’s London

    By Marta Bausells  December 14, 2016
    Personal Essay

    I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

    By Claire Messud  December 14, 2016
    Bad News

    A New Law Is Causing Problems for California Booksellers

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2016
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