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The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of<br> <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
The Talented Mr. Ripley

"OK, first of all, Ripley is a loser."

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty<br> To Write?

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

Disavowing the Rituals of the American Civil War

By Susan V. Donaldson | February 4, 2020

On <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

Red Newsom Considers the Line Between Experience and Fiction

By Red Newsom | February 3, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

By Melissa Mesku | February 3, 2020

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's Blue-Collar Aristocrats

By Samuel Freedman | January 30, 2020

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider <em>American Dirt</em>

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

By 141 Writers | January 29, 2020

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
As Far Back as the Renaissance

By Beth Blum | January 29, 2020

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

Jessica Mesman Griffith Revisits the “Hauntology“ of
Ghosts at the End of the World

By Jessica Mesman Griffith | January 29, 2020

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

(But Don't Tell Them We Said So)

By Dennis Tang | January 27, 2020

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Jonathan Reiber Considers the State of the Union in the Most Important Election Year in Its History

By Jonathan Reiber | January 27, 2020

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