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A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers

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Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is full...
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Up All Night by Imogen Willetts review – a seductive history of going out

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In this fabulous alternative history of the modern world, the academic and “party historian” Imogen Willetts looks at the last 500 years of civilisation...
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What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power

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A few summers ago, while the Supreme Court was deciding whether or not abortion would remain legal, I was writing a novel about Bobby...
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The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite

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FictionFictionCursed DaughtersOyinkan BraithwaiteRepeat a family story often enough, and it becomes a kind of legend – or a curse. The Faloduns at the centre...
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Lit Hub Weekly: July 13 – 17, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray is born.On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone...
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Hagitude author Sharon Blackie: ‘At 60 I wasn’t ready to give up, I was just starting’

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Like many of the wise women in her books, Sharon Blackie lives miles from anyone. Hers is the only house on the road winding...
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Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?

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The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) is suspended in the air above the traffic and the trees of the Avenida...
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Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter review – a bravura rendering of bereavement

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Less than a week after the sudden death of his wife, a grieving man opens his front door to a giant crow who scoops...
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Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey

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The first time I read the Odyssey, I was sixteen years old. The fantastical creatures, the alien cultures, and the wily hero’s desperate search...
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Every year 6 student to be given Katherine Rundell book for Christmas

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Every child in year 6 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and P6 in Scotland, will be given the bestselling book Impossible Creatures by...
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Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1901, Polish poet, novelist, and playwright Bruno Jasieński is born.Henry Power tackles an age old question:...