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    10 new books to add to your TBR pile.

    By Katie Yee  January 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Do you even love books if you haven’t collected all of these independent bookseller cards?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

    By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
    Writer's Retreats

    The Yurt at the Edge of the Sea:
    A Writers’ Retreat on the California Coast

    By Emily Cooke  January 21, 2020
    Literary Calendar

    Your 2020 Literary Events Calendar

    By Emily Temple  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    Kyle Chayka on the Godfather of Minimalism and His Case for Imperfection

    By Kyle Chayka  January 21, 2020
    Literary History

    The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

    By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
    Mental health

    The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

    By Ayelet Waldman  January 21, 2020
    Post-Soviet Travel

    Post-Soviet Travel on the Turkmen-­Kazakh Border

    By Erika Fatland  January 21, 2020
    The Hub

    The new Little Fires Everywhere trailer is lit in more ways than one.

    By Katie Yee  January 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Here’s the first trailer for the adaptation of Normal People.

    By Emily Temple  January 17, 2020
    The Hub

    When a Swedish poet tried to sabotage Samuel Beckett.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 17, 2020
    The Hub

    The BBC’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch series looks pretty great.

    By Molly Odintz  January 17, 2020
    Sports

    The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman’s Life

    By Andrew R.M. Smith  January 17, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    European History

    The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

    By Rory MacLean  January 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    Feminism

    Amber Tamblyn on a Woman’s Right to Choose… From More Than Just One Woman Candidate

    By Amber Tamblyn  January 17, 2020
    Immigration

    When It Comes to Immigration, Political Centrism is Useless

    By Daniel Denvir  January 17, 2020
    Social Expectations

    Sarah Knight on How to Just F*cking Say No

    By Sarah Knight  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    K Chess: Imagining a Radically Different 20th Century That Might Have Been

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
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    Lit Hub Recommends: Brokeback Mountain, Easy, and John Mulaney

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    The Hub

    A new Missouri bill proposes jailing librarians who provide children “age-inappropriate” books.

    By Corinne Segal  January 16, 2020
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