The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

Kimberly King Parsons Recommends Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Kimberly King Parsons | May 15, 2024

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s <em>Freedom Song</em>

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

“True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.”

By Wendy Doniger | May 15, 2024

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 15, 2024

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 14, 2024

Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s <em>Train Dreams</em>

Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | May 14, 2024

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

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Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

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How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

By Colombe Schneck | May 14, 2024

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 14, 2024

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Monika Zgustova Explores Childhood Sexual Abuse and Its Aftermath, On and Off the Page

By Monika Zgustova | May 10, 2024

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 Colm Tóibín, Sathnam Sanghera, Kaliane Bradley, and More

By Book Marks | May 10, 2024

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 9, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Can a novel be both blunt and exquisite?”

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

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