August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah
Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night
How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction
Phil Klay on Maintaining Verisimilitude When Writing About War
Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms
Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being
Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch
“Back to basics. Just hot dogs, babka, and gratitude for vaccines.”
Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella
”They take you—for one evening if you don't put it down, longer if you draw it out—to a place that you can see in sharp detail.”
On Reconnecting With My Korean Heritage Through Food
For Peter Serpico Cooking Feels Like Coming Home
Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle
The Author of Forbidden City Talks to Jane Ciabattari
On the Politics of Caste and Feminine Joy in Satyajit Ray’s Classic Charulata
TANAÏS on How the Narratives of Muslim Women and Femmes Are Not Merely About Representation
The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next
A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian
Seema Reza on the Joy of Being (Completely) Alone
“Uncontrollable. They meant the word as a criticism; I wore it as a badge.”
How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense
Jon Mooallem in Conversation with Andrew Keen
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