August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Indie Bookstores, Audre Lorde, and More

August 30, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

From “Rez Ball” to “Die Hard”

August 30, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

The Month to Come in Literary Listening

August 30, 2024  By AudioFile Magazine   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Minrose Gwin on Creating Complex Villains

“When it comes to creating villains, I must confess to writing with more fury than love.”

August 30, 2024  By Minrose Gwin   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Frank Andre Guridy on Queer Athletic Activism and the Use of Stadiums as Sites of Political Struggle

August 30, 2024  By Frank Andre Guridy   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Sports 
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Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

August 30, 2024  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists  The Hub 
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Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide

“How difficult and treacherous our paths are, always, within this country and its institutions.”

August 29, 2024  By Huda Fakhreddine   Posted In  Memoir  Politics 
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Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

Maris Kreizman, in Praise of the Deep Dive

August 29, 2024  By Maris Kreizman   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 29, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 29, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Smarter Than You Think? On the Literary Side of Friends

Greg Cwik Examines the Reading Habits in the Iconic 90s Sitcom

August 29, 2024  By Greg Cwik   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Film and TV  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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As Much Power As the President: How Billionaires Became More Influential than World Leaders

Rob Larson on Income Inequality, Blurring Class Distinctions, and How Money Became Synonymous with Power

August 29, 2024  By Rob Larson   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Just as there is no single method of selling out, there is no single art monster.”

August 29, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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We Live in Uncertain Times… But Haven’t We Always?

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Makes the Case For Being Comfortable With Not Knowing

August 29, 2024  By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Joshua Kaplan on AP3 and the Future of American Militias

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

August 29, 2024  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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Here are the finalists for the 2024 Kirkus Prize.

August 28, 2024  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  Events  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: August 28, 2024

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 28, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

Tobias Carroll on M. John Harrison’s Rock Climbing Novel, “Climbers”

August 28, 2024  By Tobias Carroll   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Health  Literary Criticism  Sports 
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What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West

Tore C. Olsson on the Making of a Centuries-Old Obsession at the Heart of American National Identity

August 28, 2024  By Tore C. Olsson   Posted In  History  News and Culture  Technology 
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The 10 Best Book Covers of August

A Slippery Month

August 28, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 
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How the Massacre of Beziers Marked the Beginning of Centuries of Violence in Europe

T.D. Allman on Medieval Spiritual Corruption and Bloody Religious Warfare in Southern France

August 28, 2024  By T. D. Allman   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Religion 
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