5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”

January 30, 2025  By Book Marks   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone

January 30, 2025  By Maris Kreizman   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Film and TV  Literary Criticism 
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The 14 Best Book Covers of January

Starting the Year Off Right

January 30, 2025  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Design  Features  News and Culture 
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“Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

From the Collection “Swell”

January 30, 2025  By Maria Ferguson   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

January 30, 2025  By Lea Carpenter   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Feargal Ó Béarra, Vona Groarke, and Others

January 30, 2025  By Diana Arterian   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists 
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25 books out in paperback this February!

January 30, 2025  By Gabrielle Bellot   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Literary Criticism  Reading Lists  The Hub 
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This Love

Lotte Jeffs

January 30, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

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

January 30, 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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Do you have millions and millions of dollars? Jackie Collins’ house is on the market.

January 29, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Art and Photography  Design  News and Culture  Style  The Hub 
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Why are we so obsessed with political cartoons?

A brief literary history from Ben Franklin to Ann Telnaes.

January 29, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Art and Photography  Design  Humor  News and Culture  Politics  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: January 29, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

January 29, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

Deni Ellis Béchard Considers the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Worlds Fictional and Real

January 29, 2025  By Deni Ellis Béchard   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  News and Culture  Technology 
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More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”

January 29, 2025  By Kay Sohini   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

Jeff Sebo on Our Attempts to Measure Intrinsic Value

January 29, 2025  By Jeff Sebo   Posted In  Features  History  Nature  News and Culture 
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Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

January 29, 2025  By Robert D. Kaplan   Posted In  Climate Change  Features  History  Politics 
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How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

January 29, 2025  By Ruth Franklin   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism 
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The English Problem

Beena Kamlani

January 29, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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André Alexis on Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

January 29, 2025  By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast 
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It’s official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

January 28, 2025  By James Folta   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture  The Hub 
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