Why boys actually need boy bands: “Books and boy bands are a bard’s best balm.” | Lit Hub Music Matthew Sitman talks to Brandon Taylor about Minor Black Figures, writing about Black art, and more at The Center For Fiction.
Why boys actually need boy bands: “Books and boy bands are a bard’s best balm.” | Lit Hub Music Matthew Sitman talks to Brandon Taylor about Minor Black Figures, writing about Black art, and more at The Center For Fiction.
Want to understand the Anthropocene? Look at what humanity has done with chickens. | Lit Hub Science Mohammed Massoud Morsi explores how writing fiction about Palestinian lives allows “stories that would otherwise have disappeared into the chest of time” to
There will never be another Wikipedia, “one of the strangest and most outlandish successes of its time.” | Lit Hub Technology In honor of their new book, Stellar Smoke, we asked Tanaïs some questions about writing, Mulholland Drive, and more.
American classrooms are racially segregated, and AI is only making it worse. | Lit Hub Politics Nina Chayka searches for the rarest Nabokov paperbacks in America: “Ardis lives on less through its corporate afterlife and more through the people still
Was Cormac McCarthy that guy in your MFA? | Lit Hub Craft How being a writer helped Emma Smith-Stevens navigate the American health insurance system (and why her experiences expose the cruelty of for-profit medicine). | Lit Hub Health We
When you think of the Brontës, maybe you should think of botany. | Lit Hub Criticism Cundill Prize finalist Beth Lew-Williams recommends essential reading on Chinese American history by Erika Lee, Gordon Chang, Brianna Nofil and more. | Lit Hub
What do movies like What Does That Nature Say to You, A Poet and Late Fame reveal about how we view poets? “The poets don’t need the movies as much as the movies need characters who still have something unruly
You’ve heard of cottagecore, but what about bogcore? Anna North introduces you to the genre via work by Annie Proulx, Kay Chronister, Seamus Heaney and more. | Lit Hub Criticism Why are publishers suing big tech with one hand and
How newspapers helped democratize knowledge (because reading isn’t just for the rich). | Lit Hub Politics Is it or isn’t it? James Folta considers how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone. | Lit Hub Technology Oksana Lutsyshyna
Bringing the New York School to middle school: Why Frank O’Hara is the perfect way to introduce poetry to tweens. | Lit Hub Criticism Adam Johnson talks to Amitav Ghosh about The Wayfinder, the many ways to tell a single
Morgan Entrekin attends the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize dinner at the Frankfurt Book Fair. | Lit Hub On Translation Demetris Papadimitropoulos considers the complex relationships between queer people and their families through reading Families We Keep and Families We
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
“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
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