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The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

Featuring Anne Enright, Lorrie Moore, Zadie Smith, Anne Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2023

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

The Best Writing at the Site This Year, According to the Editors

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

Featuring Janet Malcolm, David Grann, Martin Luther King, Naomi Klein, and More

By Book Marks | December 7, 2023

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

“I was made dangerously permeable so my babies could be born.”

By Jessica Moore | December 7, 2023

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

Naomi Alderman On Tech Billionaires as Today's Villains

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 7, 2023

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Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 7, 2023

Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | December 6, 2023

My Year in Reading Children’s Books

By Sara B. Franklin | December 6, 2023

<em>Eileen</em> Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Eileen Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

Emmeline Clein Digs in to the New Adaptation, from Page to Screen

By Emmeline Clein | December 6, 2023

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Two Poems by Marlon Hacla, Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

From the Collection Glossolalia

By Marlon Hacla | December 6, 2023

David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare's White Others

David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare's White Others

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 6, 2023

Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

“Once I wanted poetry to save me. From what? For what is the better question.”

By Christian Wiman | December 5, 2023

Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories

Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Welcome Home, Stranger

By Jane Ciabattari | December 5, 2023

The Velvet Underground! Anthony Veasna So! Queer Sci-Fi! 21 new books out today.

The Velvet Underground! Anthony Veasna So! Queer Sci-Fi! 21 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 5, 2023

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

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