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The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

Sentimental, Almost Cloying, Occasionally Saccharine, Often Wonderful

By Jonathan Russell Clark | October 22, 2015

Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

Jason Diamond on Making Henry James an Annual Tradition

By Jason Diamond | October 22, 2015

Jane Smiley: "At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept."

On Killing Characters and Exploring Fictional Worlds

By Jane Smiley | October 20, 2015

The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

Love and Death on Flannery’s Farm

By Margaret Eby | October 20, 2015

Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

In Which a Playwright Turned Novelist Tries to Decide

By Kirk Lynn | October 19, 2015

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

Happy Pub Birthday, Moby-Dick, You are the Best

By Joel Cuthbertson | October 16, 2015

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Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

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By Adam Sternbergh | October 14, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

By Zinzi Clemmons | October 8, 2015

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Ruminations On America, Harvard Square, 1965

By Kenzaburo Oe | October 8, 2015

<em>Don Quixote</em>: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

On the Magical Hyper-realism of a 400-Year-Old Classic

By Ilan Stavans | October 7, 2015

When Pen Names Become People

When Pen Names Become People

The Freedom and Pitfalls of Literary (Mis)Identity

By Tobias Carroll | October 7, 2015

Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

A Last-Minute Plea on Behalf of Secular Miracles

By Jonathan Russell Clark | October 7, 2015

A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

Michele Wallace

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 5, 2015

How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

On John Gardner, Denis Johnson, and the Baby Blues

By Liz Windhorst Harmer | October 5, 2015

Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Because in the Writer's Mind, Size Sometimes Matters

By Sloane Crosley | October 1, 2015

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