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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 January

By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

Mark Gustafson on the Poet's Devotion to a Community

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's Blue-Collar Aristocrats

By Samuel Freedman | January 30, 2020

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider <em>American Dirt</em>

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

By 141 Writers | January 29, 2020

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
As Far Back as the Renaissance

By Beth Blum | January 29, 2020

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

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

By Jessica Mesman Griffith | January 29, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

By Dennis Tang | January 27, 2020

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

By Jonathan Reiber | January 27, 2020

Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

By John M. Bowers | January 27, 2020

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Children of the Land

By Javier Zamora | January 24, 2020

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

Lucia Benavides on Confronting That Deepest of Human Fears

By Lucia Benavides | January 23, 2020

Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

Phillipa Chong Surveys Professional Book Critics

By Phillipa K. Chong | January 23, 2020

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

The Danger of Naming Art Before It Has Been Made

By Wole Soyinka | January 23, 2020

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia's Devastating Bushfires

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia's Devastating Bushfires

Jennifer Mills on the Writer's Responsibility

By Jennifer Mills | January 22, 2020

Rediscovering the Lost Power<br> of Reading Aloud

Rediscovering the Lost Power
of Reading Aloud

Meghan Cox Gurdon Traces the History of Oral Storytelling

By Meghan Cox Gurdon | January 22, 2020

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