Miss Subways
David Duchovny
“She tried to avert her gaze from any man. She didn’t consider herself beautiful, but she had something some men sometimes liked. Some thing. Some times. Some men. Like she was in on the big joke.”
Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction
"They Are Ways to Escape Material Borders—And My Body"
‘What If You Get Pregnant? Would You Be Okay with That?’
Read from Sheila Heti's New Novel, Motherhood
On the Fear, Responsibility, and Boredom of Motherhood
Gabriela Wiener: Children Are Like Annoying Tourists
Paul Bowles: ‘Here’s My Message. Everything Gets Worse’
Paul Theroux on the Existentialism of The Sheltering Sky
Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident
How He Exposed the Sports World’s Limited Scope, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking
What We Loved This Week
The Lit Hub Staff on the Patrick Melrose Novels, the Boston Celtics, and Alan Rickman's head in an urn
Richard Russo on Loving Flawed Family Members
"Like My Grandfather and Father, I Don’t Demand or Expect Perfection in Those I Love"
Rubik
Elizabeth Tan
“It’s Sunday evening and there’s nothing to eat. Elena’s bladeless fan pivots in monochrome silence, the centerpiece of a room that’s untidy in an engineered way, like movie teenage bedrooms.”
Rebecca Solnit on Skipping High School and California Culture
In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings
On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"
How My Father’s Strike Nearly Broke Our Town in Two
Kerri Arsenault on an Early Lesson in Labor and Loyalty
Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?
From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times
How My Father Introduced Me to Precision Engineering
On the Art of Turning Shapeless Hard Metal Into Objects of Beauty and Utility
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Hanif Abdurraqib on Zora Neale Hurston, Jia Tolentino on Melissa Broder, and more
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