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    This weird NYC couple doesn’t want you to read Palestinian children’s books.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 12, 2023
    On Identity

    One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

    By Naomi J. Williams  December 12, 2023
    Best of 2023

    The 139 Best Book Covers of 2023

    By Emily Temple  December 12, 2023
    The Renaissance

    Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

    By Meredith K. Ray  December 12, 2023
    Politics

    Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    Music history

    Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

    By Simon Price  December 12, 2023
    The Hub

    Joe Sacco’s acclaimed graphic novel about Gaza is being rushed back into print.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Dozens of indie booksellers have signed an open letter in support of Palestine.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 11, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Photography

    Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

    By Binh Danh  December 11, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

    By Helen Molesworth  December 11, 2023
    Climate Change

    Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

    By Natalie Hart  December 11, 2023
    Gifts

    On the Difficulty of Giving Books as Gifts

    By Lewis Buzbee  December 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Hannah Gold on Letting Go of Philip Roth

    By Keen On  December 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

    By Rumaan Alam  December 8, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    By Kliph Nesteroff  December 8, 2023
    Culinary History

    Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

    By Gareth Russell  December 8, 2023
    Family Stories

    Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

    By Channler Twyman  December 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Ben Lerner on the Dangers of Digital Technology

    By Keen On  December 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Poet and scholar Refaat Alareer has been killed by an Israeli airstrike.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 7, 2023
    The Hub

    Israeli bombing has devastated Gaza’s cultural sector.

    By Dan Sheehan  December 7, 2023
    The Hub

    Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 7, 2023
    Censorship

    Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

    By Moira Marquis  December 7, 2023
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