July 14 – 18, 2025
- Mira Ptacin examines the poetry of found lists
- How ICE hit lists endanger student protesters
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy
Support Lit Hub.
Andrew Malan Milward on House Bill 1523
"It's Important to Distinguish Between People and Governments"
Five Mississippi Writers on Why They Oppose Their State’s New Anti-LGBTQ “Religious Freedom” Law
Kiese Laymon, Katy Simpson Smith, Margaret Eby, Catherine Lacey, and Andrew Malan Milward
From Chaos in Libya to the Edge of ISIS in Northern Iraq
Notes and Photographs from Moises Saman's Discordia
Avoid the Pathways to Psychic Pain
Dr. David A. Kessler on Depression, David Foster Wallace, and Capture Theory
Elif Batuman on Crying, Taste, and Writing a Novel Called “The Idiot”
Part Two of Batuman's Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Devotion
Ros Barber
“Dr Logan? Turning round to face a beautiful woman, Logan knows he should have prepared more thoroughly.”
Why My Novel Uses Untranslated Chinese
Esmé Weijun Wang on commiting to the possibility of being unintelligible
On Fandom, Obsessions, and the World Wide Web
Justin Tussing Recalls the Time He Helped Collate Pictures of Xena
The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail
Benjamin Warner Recalls the Great Drought of '99, and a Single Bee Sting
Five Books Making News This Week: Poets, Pretensions, and Burglaries
Marianne Moore, Dan Fox, Karan Mahajan, and More
Our Young Man
Edmund White
“Pierre-Georges came by for Guy’s signature on a contract. “It’s for a horrible American fragrance. Why can’t Americans come up with something that smells good, that has woodsy notes or lemon? Don’t they have noses?"”
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