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Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert
When you’re young, or not so young, and strongly drawn to a genre of music, a certain composer, a particular piece, it’s often hard to expla
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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE
Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” fr
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Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness
Bennie Bosley, the protagonist of my new queer YA holiday romance, Pining for You, is living for Christmas magic and Grand Gesture Romance t
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We Never Called It Frisco
They say we’re a town full of losers. They say we’re eccentric, eclectic—marginal. Maybe I’m exaggerating. But when somebody on the East Coa
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Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism, Tree by Tree
Nonfiction writer Robert Moor joins co-hosts Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about his new book, In Trees, and the po
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On the strange, literary video games of Inpatient Press.
The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work. The small publisher has been putting out fascinating novels, c
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Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2026
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Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists
R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon. Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is u
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What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom
Is there a German word that means the opposite of “doppelgänger”—not the uncannily mysterious twin, but the secretly matched-up opponent who
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What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time
I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler. It is World Migratory Bird Day in spring, the second Saturday
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“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt
On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, I walked down the fourth floor hallway on my way to c
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Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize
Writing is a challenge, at every level. There are constant pressures acting upon a writer: juggling between responsibilities and work; prior
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Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favo
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“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know”
Read an interview with Ken Liu explaining how this story was written here.* Obituary WHEEP-3 (“Dr. Weep”), probably the most renowned AI AI-
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Rejected pitches for Practical Magic 2.
This week, whimsigoths from New England to the PNW will be celebrating a long-awaited sequel. Practical Magic 2 revisits characters first co
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34 Books You Need to Read This Fall
The weather has become untrustworthy, for determining the seasons and otherwise. As I write this introduction, the leaves remain stubbornly
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Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2026
A new season means new books. Here are 35 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara
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Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!
There’s a rule in September that every week must include one epically splashy book: this week, Emma Cline’s Switzy is here to fulfill that q
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Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It
One of the most celebrated classicists writing today, Emily Wilson achieved a rare kind of literary stardom in 2017, when her translation of
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Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word o
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How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs
Leo Tolstoy should have been triumphant. By the 1880s, the Russian novelist had written the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, ac
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What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe
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This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City
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“How to be a Black Author”
After Lorrie Moore and Kiese Laymon. You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you
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