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The Top Ten Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2017
From the Elusive Humanity of Donald Trump to the Great American Novel
“The Murder of Santa Claus”
P. D. James
“If you’re an addict of detective fiction, you may have heard of me, Charles Mickledore.”
20 Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017
Freeman's Contributors on their Favorite Undersung Titles
Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 30 to 21
From Twitter Gaffes to American Invasions
10 Dark Short Stories You Can Read Online to Escape Holiday Cheer
Under the table on your phone, if necessary
Yan Lianke and Xiaolu Guo on Writing Through Rural Poverty in China
On the Life of the Chinese Novelist in Exile
Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 40 to 31
From Reading Rainbow to Presidential Crime Novels
Real Gratitude Shouldn’t Be Easy: On It’s a Wonderful Life
George Bailey Rejects the Given in Favor of the Good
Sisters of the Cross
Alexei Remizov, Trans. by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy
“It was not because their duties brought them close together that Marakulin and Glotov were friends.”
What the Lit Hub Staff is Reading, Watching, and Listening to This Holiday Season
From Muppets to Middlemarch, RuPaul to David Attenborough, we've got the season covered
Safiya Sinclair on Waiting for the Storm on America’s Margins
Peter Mishler Interviews the Author of Cannibal
Taking Inspiration from my Grandparents’ Wartime Love Letters
"No Heart-Emoji Could Ever Mean as Much"
In the Fall They Come Back
Robert Bausch
“Except for what happened with little George Meeker, my first year in the classroom went rather smoothly.”
Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 50 to 41
From White Nationalist Kid Lit to the Magic of Books
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