5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

January 16, 2025  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry

January 16, 2025  By Andy Corren   Posted In  Features  Humor  Memoir  News and Culture 
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A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

Lee Hawkins: “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom.”

January 16, 2025  By Lee Hawkins   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and Others

January 16, 2025  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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My Darling Boy

John Dufresne

January 16, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

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

January 16, 2025  By Fiction Non Fiction   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Fiction/Non/Fiction  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism 
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Which of Tom Hanks’ beloved typewriters are you?

January 15, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Art and Photography  Design  Events  Film and TV  Humor  News and Culture  Style  Technology  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: January 15, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 15, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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On the Courage of Nan Goldin and the Truth About Germany’s “Never Again Is Now” Resolution

Germany’s Resolution on Antisemitism Is More About Soothing a Nation’s Conscience Than "Protecting Jewish Life”

January 15, 2025  By A.J. Goldmann   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  Politics 
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The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

Criticism by Jane Zwart, From the Latest Issue of “Image” Magazine

January 15, 2025  By Jane Zwart   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Religion 
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How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

Raúl Rojas on the Origins and Etymology of Some of Our Most-Used Mathematical Terms

January 15, 2025  By Raúl Rojas   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Science 
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The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

January 15, 2025  By Carolyn Kellogg   Posted In  Climate Change  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Memoir  Nature 
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Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

Michelle Adams on the Ongoing Legal Struggle For Educational and Racial Equality Across the United States

January 15, 2025  By Michelle Adams   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

Zeinab Badawi Explores the African Origins of Humanity's Earliest Ancestors

January 15, 2025  By Zeinab Badawi   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Science 
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My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

Layne Fargo Explores the Power of Celebrating Others' Literary Success (and Why Their Success Is Also Yours)

January 15, 2025  By Layne Fargo   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Good Girl

Aria Aber

January 15, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI.

January 14, 2025  By James Folta   Posted In  Technology  The Hub 
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Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.

January 14, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  Bookstores and Libraries  Events  The Hub 
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These were the bestselling books of 2024.

January 14, 2025  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: January 14, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 14, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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