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Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

“Wait, dog point of view wasn’t allowed?”

By Anthony Doerr | September 30, 2019

On Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools

On Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools

Definitions From A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

By Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith | September 30, 2019

5 Great Island Books That Reimagine <em>The Tempest</em>

5 Great Island Books That Reimagine The Tempest

Johanna Stoberock on the Best Reconsiderations of Shakespeare's Classic

By Johanna Stoberock | September 30, 2019

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

Chilling Reminders: As Late As 1928 the Nazis Were Polling at Less Than 3 Percent

By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | September 30, 2019

Leslie Jamison: On Weddings

Leslie Jamison: On Weddings

"Weddings are holiness and booze, sweat under the dress..."

By Leslie Jamison | September 27, 2019

The 11 Best Book Covers of September

The 11 Best Book Covers of September

All Your Back-to-School Accessorizing, Handled

By Emily Temple | September 27, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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

The Writer You've Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

By Mark Haber | September 27, 2019

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

By Sonya Huber | September 27, 2019

A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

By Princeton Architectural Press | September 27, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in September

By Literary Hub | September 27, 2019

How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

Jonathan Wilson on the Transformative Play of a Handful of Stars

By Jonathan Wilson | September 27, 2019

Fatima Bhutto on Bollywood's 'Most Unlikely Hero'

Fatima Bhutto on Bollywood's 'Most Unlikely Hero'

Deciphering Shah Rukh Khan

By Fatima Bhutto | September 27, 2019

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

Marcia Lynx Qualey on the Rise of a Complex, Capacious Literary Genre

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | September 27, 2019

Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

From the Selected Cronicas, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

By Clarice Lispector | September 27, 2019

Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

Who Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping

The journalist and Time Person of the Year
talks to Andrew on Keen On

By Keen On | September 27, 2019

Inside Ann Patchett’s New Novel, <em>The Dutch House</em>

Inside Ann Patchett’s New Novel, The Dutch House

The Dutch House Novelist on The Literary Life
with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 27, 2019

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