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The Pretender by Jo Harkin audiobook review – sprightly historical political skulduggery

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It is 1483 and 10-year-old John Collan is living on a farm outside Oxford with his father, Will, and waging war on an aggressive goat that keeps trampling him....
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Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?

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Well, hello there! Welcome back to another intriguing installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? Yes, you heard right: this...
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On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

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In March, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy discriminated against therapist Kaley Chiles based on first amendment rights. The case...
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Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1812, Robert Browning is born. Sarah Moroz considers “the poignant sibling renaissance” of Ocean Vuong’s first photography...
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Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?

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“Unlike writing, which is a vocation mired with maybes, the camera, for all of its complex mechanisms, can only say yes,” Ocean Vuong wrote....
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Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.Article continues after...
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Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist

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“Man,” says one of Will Maclean’s characters on catching sight for the first time of the titular Solace House. “Gothic always tries too hard.”...
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Violaine Huisman on Confronting a Father and Grandfather’s Legacy of Infidelity

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My father described his infidelities “playfully, with only a dash of contrition.” That is a sentence I wrote in my novel The Monuments of...
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What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

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Not long ago, I decided spur of the moment to attend an estate sale in my Washington, DC, neighborhood. As I walked the few...
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Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

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Eighteen‑year‑old Vera Brandes had not intended to make music history on the night of January 24, 1975. She planned only to put on a...
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Unions are having a moment in publishing. Here’s why.

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Yesterday, workers at the University of Chicago Press announced a plan to unionize. As Publishers Weekly reported, the UCP Workers Guild would be the...