February 12, 2025
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A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife
Larissa Pham on Baking, Community and Navigating Societal Expectations of Heteronormativity
If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star
The Author of “Live Fast” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne
Megan Marshall on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Family, Edmund Spenser, and Biographical Lies
Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia
David Levering Lewis on the Eternal Questions of Race and Power Surrounding the American National Narrative
The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education
Eve L. Ewing on the Structural Factors Behind Economic and Educational Inequality in America
From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism
“Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”
“Winter Garden” and “Moleskine Knockoffs,” Two Poems by Emma Ruth Rundle
From the Collection “The Bella Vista”
Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.
Care of our friends at Verso Books.
After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer
“I am determined to keep writing, it has never mattered to me more.”
How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza
Pankaj Mishra on Nationalism, Modernity and How We Can Best Confront Contemporary Atrocity
Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Waiting for the Long Night Moon”
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