The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s <em>The Sleepers</em>

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Karla Kelsey Considers Questions of Gender, Agency and Freedom on Both Sides of the Photographer’s Lens

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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

With Drew Broussard, Jonny Diamond, James Folta, Calvin Kasulke, Molly Odintz, and Dan Sheehan

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 13, 2024

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

Ed Simon on the Enduring Political Relevance of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

By Ed Simon | December 13, 2024

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

By Maris Kreizman | December 12, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sharon Sliwinski, Samih al-Qasim, Mike Davis, and Others

By Diana Arterian | December 12, 2024

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 12, 2024

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Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching <em>Paradise Lost</em> to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

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Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

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Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

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Paul McCartney! Hannah Arendt’s poetry! “Paradise Lost”! 15 new books out today.

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Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s <em>Texas: The Great Theft</em>

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

“Like a thief, gossip moves swiftly, undeterred by rivers or valleys, indifferent to borders and the hotheads who patrol them.”

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