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“Why I’m still on strike.” Olivia McGiff’s portraits from the HarperCollins picket line. | Lit Hub
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“I take a deep breath then follow her out the door and into the gym, where WNBA players and famous coaches sit with clipboards.” Writer Marisa Crane takes one more shot at her basketball dreams. | Lit Hub Sports
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Here are 25 historical crime, mystery, and horror novels to look forward to in 2023 (and yes, the 90s now count as “historical”). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Sarah Moorhouse on reading Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy in the age of digital distraction. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Paul French’s “Crime and the City” column takes a dark tour through Cork City, Ireland. | CrimeReads
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“When you write a novel with inhuman characters, people will notice, and you might seem racist.” Christian Lorentzen revisits American Dirt. | Christian Lorentzen’s Diary
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Sophie Vershbow considers what the end of Book Twitter would mean for publishing. | Esquire
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“The Wife of Bath is the first ordinary woman in English literature.” Marion Turner on the legacy of Chaucer’s heroine. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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ICYMI: the best small press books of 2022. | Electric Lit
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“From a young age, Dworkin treated literature and social change as a single aspiration.” Sam Huber considers Andrea Dworkin, Wuthering Heights, and literariness. | The New York Review of Books
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@DepthsOfWikipedia creator Annie Rauwerda on the joys of the internet… and an unexpected friendship with Caroline Calloway. | Bustle
Also on Lit Hub: The late Adina Talve-Goodman on illness, wellness, and luck • On Regina Gelana Twala and the legacy of racism and sexism in Southern Africa • Read from Lydia Sandgren’s debut novel, Collected Works, translated by Agnes Broomé