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Book of Hours
The woman first saw the stranded pilgrim, babe in arms, on a poster on the wall of the Medieval Center at the University of Bordeaux the yea
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Here are the 2026 National Book Awards finalists.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Y
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Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2026
How much money would Mr. Darcy be worth today? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey investigates. | Lit Hub History Barbara Kingsolver explains why
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What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters
Many readers are perplexed by Austen’s habit of indicating men’s fortunes in terms of annual income, while women’s fortunes are expressed as
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“Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a Poem by Patricia Lockwood
Everyone was in town for the wheat Convention. Kansas City, Power And Light. Our first night I came out Of the hotel bathroom to find him With
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Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up
Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What time of day do
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Adam Wilson on Plot vs. ”Concept” (and While He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)
Despite being a book that revolves around a cryonically-frozen (dead) father being transported two thousand miles in the back of a U-haul, A
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The Rhyl Poster
They’d ‘met’, then, in Switzerland: in the Italian part, Ticino, beside Lake Maggiore. To be precise: above it, on a mountain. The Internati
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Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!
How lucky are we? A week of new Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Michael Lewis, Meghan O’Gieblyn, and so many more amazing authors. Pour th
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What to read after you see the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Bayeux Tapestry is now on display in England’s British Museum, and the hottest ticket in London right now is a chance to peek at a nearl
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Inside the ALA’s list of the 150 most banned books of the last 35 years.
In honor of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association (ALA) has published a list of the 150 most challenged books documented betwe
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How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath
On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, my best friend Dani, also a writer, wrote to tell me that Robin Morgan, the landmark American
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Lit Hub Daily: October 5, 2026
How British media legitimized J.K. Rowling’s transphobia “We are rendered hostile abstractions in a contradictory narrative: Trans people ar
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How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia
Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her
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Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family
I recently visited a house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Despite its hospitable interiors, I wasn’t invited inside. I wandered around in t
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We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing
The literary world is finally asking a question it has dodged for years: What can a human writer do that artificial intelligence cannot? The
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9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room
I like my fiction the way I like my reality TV: full of rich people behaving badly, all of whom are one wrong move away from total exposure.
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Love Days
After a hasty breakfast, of which she remembered nothing but that she had eaten it, Susanna found herself on the street car bound for colleg
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We Are the Medicine: Recommendations on the Ever Growing List of Latinx Literature
I’m starting this draft on the Fourth of July, 2026 in the Northern California redwoods. The phrase “250 Years of Independence” inundates my
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Lit Hub Weekly: September 28 – October 3, 2026
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Audible has a creepy new feature that lets you talk to characters in books.
Ever wanted to crack the creme bruleé of Mr. Darcy’s stoicism? Or give Humbert Humbert a piece of your mind? If so, you’re in luck. This Thu
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Here’s what’s making us happy this week.
This week, your friendly neighborhood Lit Hub staff is feasting on a narrative diet—but not in the stacks you’d expect. October brings fresh
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10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Enjoy in October
Next month offers an incredible selection of nonfiction, including work by David Treuer, Wendy S. Walters, Thomas Frank, and more. * Savage
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Lit Hub Daily: October 2, 2026
Assal Rad examines the parallels between the American media’s treatment of the invasion of Iraq and the genocide in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
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