This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Power of Mutual Aid
Featuring Jonny Diamond and Olivia Rutigliano
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Han Kang, American Orphanhood, Mavis Gallant, and More
Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer
Deborah Williams on Undine Spragg, Miranda July, and “Women of a Certain Age”
Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction
“It’s not a job for the faint of heart, or the impatient. But for those of us with brains that crave this kind of work, it is bliss.”
A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood
Constance Roisin on the Author’s Construction of Herself in Fiction and in Life
Laugh a Little: Why We All Should Be Telling More Jokes
Alison Wood Brooks on the Importance of Humor in Building Professional and Personal Relationships
Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms
Guido Tonelli on the Human Urge to Honor the Dead
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“In place of clear conclusions are persistent themes, like recurring notes in a song.”
Democracy vs. Autocracy, Cooperation vs. Conflict: How World War II Was Won
Hal Brands Explores the Differing Strategies, Systems and Worldviews of the Axis and the Allies
The Shape of a Story: On Losing (and Finding) the Plot of Your Novel
Emma Knight: “As the character in this story, I’ve evolved at least to this extent: it’s no longer plot I’m afraid of.”
Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction
The Author of “Too Soon” Considers Her Novel in Relation to Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the Politics of Influence
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