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Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in <em>The Shining</em>

Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

Maggie Su: "Just as part of Jack will always remain at the Overlook, my shadow is still part of me."

By Maggie Su | January 27, 2025

Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko on What Really Happened at the Albany Book Festival

Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko on What Really Happened at the Albany Book Festival

“In a time of genocide, who gets to be outraged? Who gets to be indulged, listened to, humanized, validated?”

By Fariha Róisín | January 27, 2025

Read Mosab Abu Toha's statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

Read Mosab Abu Toha's statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan | January 24, 2025

Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

For James Folta, What’s Wrong With Men is What’s Wrong With America

By James Folta | January 24, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Power of Mutual Aid

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Power of Mutual Aid

Featuring Jonny Diamond and Olivia Rutigliano

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 24, 2025

Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

Deborah Williams on Undine Spragg, Miranda July, and “Women of a Certain Age”

By Deborah Williams | January 24, 2025

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Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction

By Gemma Tizzard | January 24, 2025

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

By Constance Roisin | January 24, 2025

Laugh a Little: Why We All Should Be Telling More Jokes

By Alison Wood Brooks | January 24, 2025

Here are this year's National Book Critics Circle Award finalists.

Here are this year's National Book Critics Circle Award finalists.

By Literary Hub | January 23, 2025

Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

Guido Tonelli on the Human Urge to Honor the Dead

By Guido Tonelli | January 23, 2025

Democracy vs. Autocracy, Cooperation vs. Conflict: How World War II Was Won

Democracy vs. Autocracy, Cooperation vs. Conflict: How World War II Was Won

Hal Brands Explores the Differing Strategies, Systems and Worldviews of the Axis and the Allies

By Hal Brands | January 23, 2025

Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 23, 2025

Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

The Author of “Too Soon” Considers Her Novel in Relation to Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the Politics of Influence

By Betty Samieh | January 22, 2025

“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“I wrote into that darkness because that kind of honesty was the only thing that felt right.”

By Matthew Nienow | January 22, 2025

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

By Kristen Martin | January 22, 2025

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