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Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

"I would rebel, and hard."

By Richard Wagamese | February 7, 2020

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the Growing Tide of Racial Animosity in 1930s Los Angeles

By Donna Rifkind | February 7, 2020

Some Very Doable Steps Toward a Plant-Based Kitchen

Some Very Doable Steps Toward a Plant-Based Kitchen

Tips for Batch Cooking, Meat Alternatives, and More

By Nil Zacharias and Gene Stone | February 7, 2020

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Liesl Schillinger on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Power of the Presidency

By Liesl Schillinger | February 6, 2020

Sylvia Ann Hewlett on #MeToo in the Corporate World

Sylvia Ann Hewlett on #MeToo in the Corporate World

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady
on the Just the Right Book Podcast

By Just the Right Book | February 6, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

To Understand America's Fear-Driven Response to Terrorism, Look to Chicago

By Laurence Ralph | February 6, 2020

Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

By Michael G. Long | February 5, 2020

A light in the darkness: Garth Greenwell live-tweeted the Iowa Caucuses and it was delightful.

By Jonny Diamond | February 4, 2020

Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women<br> Tell the Truth

Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
Tell the Truth

A Conversation on Brett Kavanaugh, Freud, and "Male Law"

By Literary Hub | 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

Literary agents representing resistance superhero “Anonymous” go on record refuting scurrilous rumors.

Literary agents representing resistance superhero “Anonymous” go on record refuting scurrilous rumors.

By Jonny Diamond | February 3, 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

How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

Fred Kaplan on the Nuclear First-Strike Dilemma

By Fred M. Kaplan | January 31, 2020

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

14 Books You Should Read <br>in February

14 Books You Should Read
in February

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

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