The decades-long friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy was defined by a “mix of intimacy and worldliness.” | Lit Hub Biography Kimberly Blaeser on being an Anishinaabe poet in a fiction writer’s world: “I write fiction with a poetic
The decades-long friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy was defined by a “mix of intimacy and worldliness.” | Lit Hub Biography Kimberly Blaeser on being an Anishinaabe poet in a fiction writer’s world: “I write fiction with a poetic
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“As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.” Sanam Sheriff meditates on trans poetics and the failure of language. | Lit Hub Craft On the immortality of Anne
How much money would Mr. Darcy be worth today? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey investigates. | Lit Hub History Barbara Kingsolver explains why she writes standing up and answers more of our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation
How British media legitimized J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: “We are rendered hostile abstractions in a contradictory narrative: Trans people are not real, only our violence is real.” | Lit Hub Politics Samantha’s all grown up, and American Girl books are entering
Assal Rad examines the parallels between the American media’s treatment of the invasion of Iraq and the genocide in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics These five books are essential reading on women in the early Civil Rights Movement. | Lit
“Anyone who really cares about books must be curious above all, and must cultivate a willingness to try new things.” Maris Kreizman pushes back against recent awards season whining. | Lit Hub What should your kids read in October? We
