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This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont
“I plume myself on this achievement more than I could possibly do on any kind of glory, political, poetical, or rhetorical.”
In Greek myth, the...
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Maria Semple Thinks Abandoning a Novel is One of Life’s Great Feelings
The Author of Go Gentle Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
Maria Semple’s novel, Go Gentle, is available now from G.P. Putnam’s Sons, so we asked her...
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Han Kang’s Light and Thread is a Love Letter to Language
The experience of reading a Han Kang novel can be likened to that of a detective newly arrived on the scene of a poorly...
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Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I spent the bulk of my twenties in various English programs writing papers with titles like “Metonymy...
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What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries
Once upon a time, before Ballerina Farm and Nara Smith, there were 1800s domestic advice manuals.Article continues after advertisement
In the middle of the 19th...
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Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action
The following speech was given at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 10, 2025.
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I want to thank my editor, Jordan Pavlin, il...
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Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1939, Finnegans Wake is published. “It is absurd that people who look and pray like me...
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One Leg on Earth by ’Pemi Aguda review – a powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos
Realism, contrary to appearances, isn’t a form closed off to horror. The stories in ’Pemi Aguda’s debut collection, Ghostroots, a finalist for the 2024...