Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Xinran in Conversation with the Author of "Tiananmen Square"

By Literary Hub | June 13, 2024

Moments of Recognition: On Locating Queerness in Bureaucratic Records

Moments of Recognition: On Locating Queerness in Bureaucratic Records

Michael Waters Explores the Subjectivity of State Categorization of Queer Identities and Relationships

By Michael Waters | June 13, 2024

How White Women’s Patronage of Black Artists Exposed Racial Fault Lines

How White Women’s Patronage of Black Artists Exposed Racial Fault Lines

L.S. Stratton on “Godmother” Charlotte Osgood Mason and Artistic Control During the Harlem Renaissance

By L.S. Stratton | June 13, 2024

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

By James Folta | June 12, 2024

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

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By Emily Temple | June 12, 2024

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater on His Life-Changing Friendship With a Literary Icon

By Cory Leadbeater | June 12, 2024

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Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

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Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

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1979’s <em>The Book-Store Book</em> documents a lost borough of booksellers.

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New literary podcasts to add to your queue.

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Here are the guest editors (and new covers!) for the Best American Series 2024.

Here are the guest editors (and new covers!) for the Best American Series 2024.

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Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

Daniel José Older: “Genocide is the single most important and urgent threat to free speech on this planet.”

By Daniel José Older | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning and Use of Rivers and Other Waterways

By Boyce Upholt | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

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