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How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles
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Sam Wasson
| February 7, 2020
Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History
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Catie Disabato
| February 7, 2020
The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
The Talented Mr. Ripley
"OK, first of all, Ripley is a loser."
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Emily Temple
| February 4, 2020
Googling Literary Lesbians:
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Sarah Heying
| February 4, 2020
Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class
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Brought Literature to the Masses
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Janine Barchas
| February 4, 2020
Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era
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Clement Knox
| February 4, 2020
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| February 4, 2020
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What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind
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Varlam Shalamov
| February 3, 2020
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
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How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers
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It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump
Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's
Blue-Collar Aristocrats
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Samuel Freedman
| January 30, 2020
Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider
American Dirt
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141 Writers
| January 29, 2020
When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?
Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
As Far Back as the Renaissance
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Beth Blum
| January 29, 2020
On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published
Jessica Mesman Griffith Revisits the “Hauntology“ of
Ghosts at the End of the World
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Jessica Mesman Griffith
| January 29, 2020
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