The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

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By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 11, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Adrian McKinty Reads Pynchon’s Hardboiled Trilogy

By Adrian McKinty | December 10, 2025

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth

By Sheldon Costa | December 10, 2025

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On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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The Far Side of Disaster: <br>On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

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Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”

By Colin Dickey | December 9, 2025

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s <em>Berlin Shuffle</em>

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

Philip Boehm Considers the Contemporary Relevance of a Tale of 1920s Germany

By Philip Boehm | December 9, 2025

Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!

Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!

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Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels

Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels

Gyles Brandreth Explores the Adult Side of an Iconic Children’s Author

By Gyles Brandreth | December 8, 2025

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Brendan Mac Evilly on Figuring Out How To Be an Artist

By Brendan Mac Evilly | December 8, 2025

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

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