Generational Storytelling: Writing For My Grandmother and My Daughter

When my Icelandic grandmother, my amma, was in her early eighties, my mom took her to the doctor for a check-up. By then, Amma was hard of hearing and had Alzheimer’s. She didn’t catch what the doc…

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Book Review: ‘The Ego Trip,’ by Kimon de Greef (Gift Article)

Kimon de Greef’s “The Ego Trip” is an enthralling, galling journey into the deeply weird underbelly of the psychedelic renaissance.

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Stephen Colbert wins an anti-censorship award after CBS ends 'The Late Show'

Stephen Colbert has received an “anti-censorship” award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The foundation, based in Oakland, California, champions diversity in U.S. literature and culture.

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Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden – Necessary Fiction

Doing our best since 2009

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Finding Your Voice as a Woman Writer Raised on Books by Men - Electric Literature

FAMOUS MEN author Julie Buntin on power imbalances, the legacy of #MeToo, and internalizing stories that aren't yours

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My Year of Tests and Arbitration by Tarpley Hitt

August 3, 2026 – “Let me be clear: I don’t ever want to see this story again.”

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Everything Is Wonderful. Keep Scrolling if You Don’t Believe Me. (Gift Article)

In “The Story of Your Life,” Kathryn Jezer-Morton explores, without castigating, the wish to present a curated version of experience via social media.

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How Literature’s Greats Saw the Côte d’Azur

These books not only captured but also helped shape the mythos of the French Riviera.

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An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star

Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.

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The August Coup by Robert Service review – the drink-soaked collapse of the Soviet Union

This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully

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Etc.books: A lone bookstore in Tokyo pushes against sexism

Etc.books helped redefine feminist publishing in Japan. Now its greatest challenge is staying open.

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Paul Yoon’s Fierce Attachment to His Dog Inspired a New Novel (Gift Article)

Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.

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Rachel Yoder Reads “The Promise”

The author Rachel Yoder reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

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Helm by Sarah Hall audiobook review – a breath of fresh air from the Pennines

Louise Brealey teases out the playful and poetic moments of these shapeshifting stories, told from the perspective of the northeasterly wind and those it has wreaked chaos on through the ages

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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne…

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Sinners, Saints and Screenplays: On Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick

Recently I’ve been watching my former Chelsea, NYC neighbor Ethan Hawke in the cool FX neo-noir series The Lowdown, which is streaming on Hulu. Though I won’t get into the plot of this sizzling sou…

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The colonial reckoning "The English Patient" adaptation couldn't capture

"But Have You Read the Book?" revisits the adaptation of Ondaatje's novel, which favored romance over history.

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Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000.

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How ‘Birth of a Culture’ by Grandmaster Flash Got Made

An inside look at the publication process for the hip-hop legend’s latest book

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​What makes a good comic novel? Andrew Sean Greer on the joy of funny writing

The Pulitzer-winning author of Less and Villa Coco explores the art of writing humour – plus 10 of the best novels to make you laugh

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'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating…

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Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-c…

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On Belonging and Accidents of Literacy: A Conversation with Sun Yung Shin - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Sun Yung Shin's new book, "Heart Eater."

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Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

This bold family saga explores a search for healing and truth in the aftermath of the Rwanda genocide

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Writers Talking Writers: Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf and Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett

The National Book Award winner and Rooney Prize recipient discuss the enduring legacy of two boundary-pushing 20th century legends.

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Writer Neige Sinno: Telling the Untellable Story

“Entering a country of shadows.” We met French writer Neige Sinno, who, in her autobiographical novel Sad Tiger, tells the story of being abused as a child. ”I'm telling the story of my life. It’s…

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