January 27 – 31, 2025
- What we should bring back the duel
- The writers ushering in a new era of lesbian fiction
- Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza
Support Lit Hub.
Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood
Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”
How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on Immigration Policing in the Digital Age
The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next
Featuring Jennifer Ackerman, jos charles, and Jenny Erpenbeck
Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
“The entire measure of someone's commitment is how much they post about their commitment.”
January’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Featuring New Titles by Álvaro Enrigue, Kaveh Akbar, Hisham Matar, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Kiley Reid
Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict in West Africa
Hannah Durkin on the Memories of the Survivors of the Slave Ship “Clotilda”
Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)
“Reframing work is an ongoing and sometimes impossible-seeming process.”
Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures
CJ Wray Shares What a Pair of Veteran Sisters Taught Her About Espionage and Postwar Life
January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Featuring Volodymyr Zelensky, Franz Fanon, Margaret Cavendish, and More
Mike Chen on Why Science is Stranger than Science Fiction
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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