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The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

Patrick Radden Keefe, Denis Johnson, Beth Macy, and More

By Literary Hub | October 18, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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By Book Marks | October 17, 2024

It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 17, 2024

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

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What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

Helen Castor on the Timeless Resonance of a Medieval Political Crisis

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Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

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No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

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“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing <em>Broke Heart Blues</em>

“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

“In rereading, I feel a clutch of the heart, and tears starting in my eyes.”

By Joyce Carol Oates | October 15, 2024

Mark Haddon! Dorothy Parker! Anthony Bourdain! 26 new books out today.

Mark Haddon! Dorothy Parker! Anthony Bourdain! 26 new books out today.

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Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Jonny Diamond in Conversation with Kim Kelly

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 11, 2024

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

Cherry Lou Sy on Searching for Identity Beyond Categories and Schisms

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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

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Which One of You Sent Me <em>Lonesome Dove</em> in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

In Which Maris Kreizman Reads Larry McMurtry’s Classic

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From <em>Beowulf</em> to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

Michael Lynn Crews Investigates the Inspiration Behind “Blood Meridian,” “Suttree” and Other Novels

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