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    Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

    By Brandon Shimoda  December 11, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Serviceberry

    By Drew Broussard  December 11, 2024
    The Hub

    Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni has died at 81.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    UCLA’s new AI-designed literature course has the worst-looking textbook cover I’ve ever seen.

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    Underreported

    An annotated list of things Raymond Chandler hated recently sold for $2000 at auction.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    Meet Brandon Kilbourne, winner of the 25th annual Cave Canem Prize.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    Reading Habits

    Luigi is Currently Reading:
    What Can We Really Learn About the UHC CEO’s Alleged Killer Based on the Books He’s Read?

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    Here are the 2024 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

    By Brittany Allen  December 10, 2024
    On Reading

    Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

    By Orlando Reade  December 10, 2024
    Speculative fiction

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

    By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

    By James Folta  December 9, 2024
    Best Books of 2024

    17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

    By Drew Broussard  December 9, 2024
    Mexican Literature

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

    By Merve Emre  December 9, 2024
    Doctors

    How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

    By Lydia Reeder  December 9, 2024
    The Hub

    The Oddest Book Title of the Year Prize goes to The Philosopher Fish.

    By James Folta  December 6, 2024
    Motherhood

    Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

    By Janet Manley  December 6, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 6, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

    By Beowulf Sheehan  December 6, 2024
    Gaza

    Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

    By Susan Abulhawa  December 6, 2024
    Cultural History

    Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

    By Glenn Adamson  December 6, 2024
    The Hub

    Why can’t we be kind? (A Pollyanna’s case for the nice review.)

    By Brittany Allen  December 5, 2024
    Home Libraries

    A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

    By Andrew Hui  December 5, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

    By Calvin Kasulke  December 5, 2024
    Music Writing

    Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

    By Literary Hub  December 5, 2024
    The Hub

    An emo note by a 14-year-old Franz Kafka is up for auction.

    By James Folta  December 4, 2024
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