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“Primo Levi didn’t know why he deserved to survive: why him, rather than someone else?” On Primo Levi’s translation of Kafka after Auschwitz. | Lit Hub Criticism Lucy Sante recommends books about memory by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald
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Lilian Pizzichini searches for the Elsa Schiaparelli dress from Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. | Lit Hub Art “In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very old human narrative tradition rooted in
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Mothman is My Boyfriend author McKayla Coyle wants to settle it once and for all: Who’s the best monster in (contemporary) literature? | Lit Hub Reading Lists What scientific mediocrity taught Vincent Yu about writing novels. | Lit Hub Craft
“It is absurd that people who look and pray like me and my cousins and uncles, with hearts that could fit in my chest, will die today from bombs forged and dropped by my tax dollars.” Kaveh Akbar considers genocide
