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A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield

A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents ...

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Am I the Asshole For Being Jealous of My Friend’s Literary Success?

Am I the Asshole For Being Jealous of My Friend’s ...

3 months ago 8

Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2026

3 months ago 10

Should the Waters Take Us

Should the Waters Take Us

3 months ago 10

As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are Stepping In

As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are ...

3 months ago 10

The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

3 months ago 10

How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”

How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone”...

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To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish No...

3 months ago 9

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mark Haber is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mark Haber is Readi...

3 months ago 9

Nate Bukaty on World Cup 2026 and the Heart of American Soccer

Nate Bukaty on World Cup 2026 and the Heart of Ame...

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Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2026

3 months ago 11

Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.

Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growin...

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Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon

Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Rac...

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Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of America’s Great Outdoors

Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of ...

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Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet

Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder t...

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One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon

One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon

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Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams

Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Lit...

3 months ago 11

I Want You to Be Happy

I Want You to Be Happy

3 months ago 8

Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides’s Iphigenia Among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson

Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides’s Iphigenia Among t...

3 months ago 9

Chana Joffe-Walt on The Best Tape You Can Get

Chana Joffe-Walt on The Best Tape You Can Get

3 months ago 10

The Odysseys, ranked.

The Odysseys, ranked.

3 months ago 11

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government

When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern...

3 months ago 10

Lit Hub Daily: July 14, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 14, 2026

3 months ago 8

Famous Men

Famous Men

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Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today!

Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and mo...

3 months ago 9

Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child

Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to...

3 months ago 8

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments

More Than a War Diary: Angela Flournoy on Jean Sai...

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Ans...

3 months ago 9

On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp

On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Childr...

3 months ago 8

Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading List in Praise of Messy Love

Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading L...

3 months ago 5

Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature.

Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for L...

3 months ago 9

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature

The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Di...

3 months ago 10

Lit Hub Daily: July 13, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 13, 2026

3 months ago 8

“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley

“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[...

3 months ago 8

Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth

Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Éli...

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“The Rival”

“The Rival”

3 months ago 8

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer

When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence ...

3 months ago 9

Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can

Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Mi...

3 months ago 10

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

3 months ago 8

Lit Hub Weekly: July 6 – 10, 2026

Lit Hub Weekly: July 6 – 10, 2026

3 months ago 9

A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life.

A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s ...

3 months ago 11

Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2026

3 months ago 11

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America

Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation...

3 months ago 12

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World

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Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires

Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood ...

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Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the...

3 months ago 13

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans Zimmer

David Baerwald on Taking Writing Lessons from Hans...

3 months ago 11

“Boardinghouse With No Visible Address,” a Poem by Franz Wright

“Boardinghouse With No Visible Address,” a Poem by...

3 months ago 10

Remembering Tom Stoppard: A Night at the Theater

Remembering Tom Stoppard: A Night at the Theater

3 months ago 11

Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK

Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK

3 months ago 12