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Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

Elena Gorokhova on Doctor Zhivago, Nabokov, and More

By Elena Gorokhova | March 28, 2022

Is Clytemnestra an Archetypically Bad Wife or a Heroically Avenging Mother?

Is Clytemnestra an Archetypically Bad Wife or a Heroically Avenging Mother?

Natalie Haynes on the Motivations of a Maligned Figure

By Natalie Haynes | March 28, 2022

Writers in Odessa, Ukraine’s “Black Sea Pearl”

Writers in Odessa, Ukraine’s “Black Sea Pearl”

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 28, 2022

On Rudolfo Anaya’s Expansive, Aching View of Childhood

On Rudolfo Anaya’s Expansive, Aching View of Childhood

Erika L. Sánchez Traces the Adventures and Losses of Bless Me, Ultima

By Erika L. Sánchez | March 28, 2022

Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Jorge Luis Borges and the Mathematical Art of the Great Detective Novel

Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Jorge Luis Borges and the Mathematical Art of the Great Detective Novel

Guillermo Martínez in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | March 28, 2022

Shubha Sunder on Writing from a Place of Nostalgia for Home

Shubha Sunder on Writing from a Place of Nostalgia for Home

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | March 28, 2022

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  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Catherine Cho on Curtis Sittenfeld, The Book Thief, and The Little House on the Prairie

By Book Marks | March 28, 2022

Your Literary Guide to the 94th Academy Awards

By Literary Hub | March 25, 2022

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked West Side Story

By Literary Hub | March 25, 2022

Rusted Vestiges and Overgrown Eyesores: 6 Novels Set in Abandoned Places

Rusted Vestiges and Overgrown Eyesores: 6 Novels Set in Abandoned Places

John Searles Explores the Allure of Locked Places and Unlocked Time

By John Searles | March 25, 2022

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked <em>Licorice Pizza</em>

Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Licorice Pizza

Lit Hub’s Literary Countdown to the 94th Academy Awards

By Literary Hub | March 25, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Anne Tyler, David Keenan, Stephen Galloway, and more

By Book Marks | March 25, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week

On interracial relationships, the Internet, imposters, and more

By Book Marks | March 24, 2022

Watching <em>Secretary</em> 20 Years Later, Post-#MeToo

Watching Secretary 20 Years Later, Post-#MeToo

Emily Kenway on the Hollywoodization of Predation

By Emily Kenway | March 23, 2022

Why Do We Love the Brutality of “Grimdark” Fantasy?

Why Do We Love the Brutality of “Grimdark” Fantasy?

Alexa Schmitt Bugler on a Genre That Repudiates the Moralistic Fantasies of Tolkien

By Alexa Schmitt Bugler | March 23, 2022

Crossing Paths with the Spirit of Sylvia Plath

Crossing Paths with the Spirit of Sylvia Plath

Helen Humphreys on Writing at Yaddo and Reading Plath’s Letters

By Helen Humphreys | March 23, 2022

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