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    Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

    “I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

     
    By Khadijah Queen  August 6, 2025
    True Crime

    The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

    By Joshua Sharpe  August 6, 2025
    Recipes

    A Modern Take on a Palestinian Classic, Made With Resourcefulness, Memory and Love

    By Sami Tamimi  August 6, 2025
    Small Presses

    On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

    By Elizabeth Kaye Cook  August 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

    By James Folta  August 5, 2025
    The Hub

    One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

    By Brittany Allen  August 5, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Philosophy

    God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

    By Jon Raymond  August 5, 2025
    Autofiction

    How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

    By Megan Cummins  August 5, 2025
    Scandals

    Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

    By Nell Stevens  August 4, 2025
    Language

    On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

    Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

    By Martha Barnette  August 6, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

    By B.A. Shapiro  August 4, 2025
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    How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

    By Shilo Kino  August 4, 2025
    The Hub

    Israel’s most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 1, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  August 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Why aren’t Sarah J. Maas’s subway ads better than this?

    By James Folta  August 1, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Talking Lapham’s Quarterly and Socialist Gothics on The Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 1, 2025
    Politics

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    Travel

    Books to drive the groupchat wild. (Summer edition!)

    By Brittany Allen  July 31, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 recipients of the $50k Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize.

    By Literary Hub  July 31, 2025
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August

    My Oxford Year, The Thursday Murder Club, and more

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2025
    The Hub

    This year, the Sealey Challenge is raising funds for Gaza.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2025
    Jane Austen

    What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

    By Kathryn Sutherland  August 4, 2025
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