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On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

A Close Reading of Christie's 80th book, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Slavoj Žižek

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

On Charles S. Wright's 1960s Novels of Societal Rejects

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Kim Adrian on My Struggle's Experimental Vision

By Kim Adrian | September 6, 2019

A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

Benjamin Markovits on the Value of Making Contact

By Benjamin Markovits | September 6, 2019

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

A Selection of This Year's Hay Festival Writers Reflect on
the Power of Reading

By Hay Festival | September 6, 2019

Did the Russian <em>Wizard of Oz</em> Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Olga Zilberbourg on Aleksandr Volkov's Adaptation of
L. Frank Baum's Classic

By Olga Zilberbourg | September 6, 2019

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Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

By Charles Johnson | September 5, 2019

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

By Anna Sherman | September 4, 2019

Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

By Meredith Talusan | September 4, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Goodnight Moon</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Goodnight Moon

if something ate him."">"Could be improved if something replied. Would be perfect
if something ate him."

By Emily Temple | September 3, 2019

Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My <em>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl</em>?

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Janet Fitch on Finding a Real Coming-of-Age Tale

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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in August

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Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Tom Lutz on Where the Love of Books Can Lead

By Tom Lutz | August 30, 2019

The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

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On Reading 31 Books in 31 Days

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John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

The Author of Stoner With Some Strong Opinions for The Nation

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What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

Terrence Holt Revisits Paul Starr's Classic, The Social Transformation of American Medicine

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