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Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 17, 2024

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

On the Impact of—and Response to—14 Months of Israel’s Assault on Gaza

By Literary Hub | December 16, 2024

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

Ian Williams Offers Less Meta, Less Rule-Based Ways to Approach Difficult Conversations

By Ian Williams | December 16, 2024

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s <em>The Sleepers</em>

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Karla Kelsey Considers Questions of Gender, Agency and Freedom on Both Sides of the Photographer’s Lens

By Karla Kelsey | December 16, 2024

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

With Drew Broussard, Jonny Diamond, James Folta, Calvin Kasulke, Molly Odintz, and Dan Sheehan

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 13, 2024

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

Ed Simon on the Enduring Political Relevance of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

By Ed Simon | December 13, 2024

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Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

By Maris Kreizman | December 12, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | December 12, 2024

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 12, 2024

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Sara B. Franklin on Telling the Truth (and Making It Bearable)

By Sara B. Franklin | December 11, 2024

Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

Nathan Deuel Wonders What We Really Need From Our Literary Heroes

By Nathan Deuel | December 11, 2024

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s <em>Clay Walls</em>

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

David S. Cho Explores Ideas of Homeland, Belonging and Identity in a Pioneering Contribution to Asian American Literature

By David S. Cho | December 11, 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

Featuring Louise Erdrich, Kaveh Akbar, Tommy Orange, Rita Bullwinkel, Garth Greenwell, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2024

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching <em>Paradise Lost</em> to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

By Orlando Reade | December 10, 2024

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

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

Featuring Ella Baxter, Christopher Bollen, Eliza Moss, and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 10, 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

By Tobias Carroll | December 10, 2024

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