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May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Claire Messud, Colm Tóibín, Miranda July, and More

May 31, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Jhumpa Lahiri! Colson Whitehead! Sex cults! 25 new books out in paperback this June.

May 31, 2024  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists  The Hub 
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AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

The Month in Listening Literarily

May 31, 2024  By AudioFile Magazine   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

“Switching around the two languages frees me from my own stigma.”

May 31, 2024  By Yukiko Tominaga   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  On Translation 
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Little Seed

Wei Tchou

May 31, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Why it’s so hard to lend a book to a friend, according to the internet.

May 30, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture  The Hub 
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An abridged timeline of Gatsby adaptations.

Who's the greatest Gatsby of them all?

May 30, 2024  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  Events  Film and TV  History  News and Culture  Style  The Hub 
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One great short story to read today: Rajesh Parameswaran’s “The Infamous Bengal Ming”

May 30, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
1

I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

May 30, 2024  By Kristen Arnett   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Health  Literary Criticism 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 30, 2024

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May 30, 2024  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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The 14 Best Book Covers of May

My Little Pony Realness

May 30, 2024  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The novel draws on a long tradition of mystical writing that confuses sacred and secular desire.”

May 30, 2024  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

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

May 30, 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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Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

On Taiwanese Literature, Trauma, and Redefining "Home"

May 30, 2024  By Jenna Tang   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  On Translation 
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Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

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May 30, 2024  By R. Derek Black   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

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May 30, 2024  By Graham Caveney   Posted In  Features  Health  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“Ithaca Is Never Far”

Sejal Shah

May 30, 2024  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

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May 30, 2024  By History of Literature   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  The History of Literature 
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One great short story to read today:
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May 29, 2024  By Drew Broussard   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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May 29, 2024  By James Folta   Posted In  Book News  Bookstores and Libraries  Events  News and Culture  The Hub 
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