Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Meg Serino Recommends Elif Batuman, Julie Buntin, Emma Cline and More

May 21, 2025  By Meg Serino   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

Curtis Duncan on George Floyd, Police Brutality, Community Organizations, and More

May 21, 2025  By Curtis Duncan   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons Track the Evolution of America's Fixation

May 21, 2025  By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons   Posted In  Features  Food  History  News and Culture 
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The Eye of the Storm: Karie Fugett on What Draws Us to Danger in Our Relationships

"I couldn’t have known then that this was only the beginning. Soon, I would carry so much more than I ever asked to hold."

May 21, 2025  By Karie Fugett   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Sing to Me

Jesse Browner

May 21, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Looks like The Chicago Sun-Times used AI to write a reading list—and wound up with slop.

May 20, 2025  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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One great short story to read today: Aimee Bender, “Off”

May 20, 2025  By Emily Temple   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 20, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

Allison Buccola Complicates Some of Popular Culture's Common Narratives About Cults

May 20, 2025  By Allison Buccola   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Richard Bausch Thinks You Can Never Permanently Ruin a Piece of Writing (And Other Tidbits)

The Author of "The Fate of Others" Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

May 20, 2025  By Literary Hub   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

Adam Roberts Recommends Culinary Moments from Nora Ephron, Charles Dickens, Bryan Washington, and More

May 20, 2025  By Adam Roberts   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Eating Your Words: In Defense of Writing Without a Recipe

Daria Lavelle on the Joys of Experimenting With Food and Fiction

May 20, 2025  By Daria Lavelle   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Food  News and Culture 
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Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

Jesse Browner Explores Why the Core Rules of Fiction Still Apply in Stories of the Past

May 20, 2025  By Jesse Browner   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism 
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What Spinoza’s Metaphysics Can Reveal to Us About the Creative Process

Madeleine Thien on Using Fiction to Find the Many Rooms Within Ourselves

May 20, 2025  By Madeleine Thien   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Ben Calhoun on Editing for the Ear

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

May 20, 2025  By The Critic and Her Publics    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  The Critic and Her Publics 
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New books from Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li! Adam Roberts! 26 new books out today.

May 20, 2025  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  The Hub 
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“As I Was Lost There Also, the Two of Us Did Meet”

Elisa Levi (trans. Christina MacSweeney)

May 20, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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One great short story to read today: “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”

May 19, 2025  By Drew Broussard   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2025

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“Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali

Melina Moe on the Editorial Relationship Between a Great American Writer and "The Greatest"

May 19, 2025  By Melina Moe   Posted In  Biography  Features  News and Culture 
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