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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Claire Messud, Adam Higginbotham, Miranda July, Hari Kunzru, and More

May 17, 2024

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Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

Anna Dorn Offers Some Subjective Tidbits For Writers At Any Stage of Their Journey

May 17, 2024

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My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

Jonny Diamond on the Timeless Genius of Canada’s Greatest Writer

May 16, 2024

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Remembering Alice Munro

1931-2024

May 14, 2024

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Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

Tessa Fontaine on the Ways Writers Can Prepare For the Worst Case Scenario

May 14, 2024

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Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “This Strange Eventful History”

May 14, 2024

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What Happens When You Read Your Mother’s X-Rated Novel

Kate Feiffer on Female-Authored Erotica As a Form of Social Critique

May 13, 2024

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You Are Being Lied to About Gaza Solidarity Camps by University Presidents, Mainstream Media, and Politicians

What Steven W. Thrasher Saw on College Campuses

May 10, 2024

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What’s Wrong With PEN America, and Why We Need It To Survive

For Maris Kreizman, Dissent is Not Censorship

May 9, 2024

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In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

Jonathan Corcoran on the Teacher Who Taught Him That Writing Begins Far From the Page

May 8, 2024

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Inside the Occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, 1968 Version

From Charles Kaiser’s “1968 in America”

May 3, 2024

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Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time”

May 2, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in May

Because Somehow It’s Still Raining

May 1, 2024

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From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

Caroline Crampton Considers the Intersection of Creative Pursuits and Health Anxiety

April 26, 2024

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The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists

Maris Kreizman on One of the Necessary Evils of Book Coverage

April 25, 2024

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Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

Joe Fassler Ponders Our Innate Desire to Rise Above It All

April 24, 2024

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Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

In Which “the Intellectual Handmaidens of the Capitalists” Are Taken to Task

April 24, 2024

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Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

April 23, 2024

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“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”

April 19, 2024

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How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”

April 19, 2024

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Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

David Hill on the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

April 18, 2024

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The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

What Writers Spend in a Week of Their Lives

April 17, 2024

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In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

“It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

April 17, 2024

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What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”

April 16, 2024

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Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Naomi Kanakia Wonders Why Nobody Talks About the Thing We All Need

April 16, 2024

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Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

April 15, 2024

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50 Ways to End a Poem

Emily Skaja Has Some Recommendations for Making a Strong Exit

April 12, 2024

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A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

In Praise of a Truly Innovative Writer

April 9, 2024

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April

Caroline CarlsonRecommends Maple Lam, Felicita Sala, Laurie Morrison and More

April 3, 2024

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Vampires, Selkies, Familiars, and More! April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Career Retrospectives and Historical Fantasies from Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie, Leigh Bardugo, and Others

April 1, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in April

April Showers Bring Opportunities to Binge Watch

March 29, 2024

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Here’s Your 2024 Literary Film & TV Preview

53 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

January 10, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024

230 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 3, 2024

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24 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2024

Exciting New Series’ and Standalones From Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, Sofia Samatar, James S.A. Corey, and More

January 2, 2024

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40 Books to Understand Palestine

From Ghassan Kanafani's "Men in the Sun" to Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail"

November 14, 2023

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Anna Noyes on Writing the Book That Keeps Her Awake

“I want narrative propelled by questions, not by the need to provide each answer.”

By Anna Noyes May 17, 2024

Solving the Mystery of the Dancing Honey Bees

Thomas D. Seeley Demystifies the Way Bees Collect Nectar For Their Hives

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Dao Strom Enters a State of Slippage

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Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions

Jessie Rosen Recommends Jennifer Weiner, Yangsze Choo, Morgan Jerkins, and More

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Curtis Sittenfeld on Love and Comedy

On Sun Valley Writers’ Conference’s Beyond the Page

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference May 17, 2024

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I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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“Ms. Munro has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages.”

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