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Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’
At Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book...
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June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Featuring Dogs in Art, Birds of the World, Romance Scammers, and More
Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Dog’s Gaze, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s The Book...
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June’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Featuring Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Andrew Sean Greer, and More
Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Ann Patchett’s Whistler, and Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco all feature among...
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What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)
The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom.
A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and standing upright....
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution
Every aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to the small children within it; only hindsight can bring what was abnormal into relief. Zayd Ayers...
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Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”
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Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking...
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Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand
Teenage boys are “stuck” reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls their age are moving on to a...
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Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1817, Branwell Brontë is born.How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on...
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Claire Fuller: ‘Dylan Thomas showed me that writing could make me feel everything’
My earliest reading memoryWhen I was five and starting school, I would catch a coach from the Oxfordshire village where I lived. Twice a...
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40 Great New Books You May Have Missed
It feels like JD Vance has been everywhere in the last few weeks, and haven’t we suffered enough? As much as I’m enjoying the...
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Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her
The Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to “silence” her.A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court...