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Andre Aciman
Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV
Lord of the Flies
! 22 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| June 24, 2025
Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories
Jessica Soffer Recommends Ocean Vuong, Emma Straub, Andre Aciman, and More
By
Jessica Soffer
| February 5, 2025
André Aciman on Displacement, Family and the Struggle to Find Home In the Eternal City
“What I felt was the persistent, undefinable numbness that eventually overtakes you and won’t let go.”
By
André Aciman
| October 22, 2024
Jeff VanderMeer! Ben Okri! Peter Singer talks turkey! 24 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| October 22, 2024
Out of Egypt
by André Aciman, Read by Edoardo Ballerini
A Classic Memoir
By
Behind the Mic
| October 13, 2022
Love, Loss, and Everything In Between: A Reading List
Jessie Stephens Recommends Nora Ephron, Elena Ferrante, Olivia Laing, and More
By
Jessie Stephens
| June 3, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Heartbreaks and Complications of School-Age Desire: A Reading List
By
Jonathan Galassi
| April 11, 2022
The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Summer (Re-)Reads
By
Emily Temple
| June 22, 2021
The Passenger
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| April 30, 2021
André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been
"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."
By
André Aciman
| January 21, 2021
André Aciman Follows Literary Ghosts in St. Petersburg
On Getting Lost, Literary History, and Dostoyevsky
By
André Aciman
| July 9, 2020
Watching
Normal People
Have Very Good Sex (on the
Small Screen)
Sex, Angst, and Sligo
By
Emily Temple
| April 22, 2020
André Aciman: Who Will We Be This Time Next Year?
On Pandemic Times and the Life to Come
By
André Aciman
| April 6, 2020
Failsafe Reading Recommendations for Your Non-Reader Friend in Need
Ideas for Emergency Book Therapy
By
Nick Greene and Megan Reid
| February 11, 2020
The 10 Best Literary Film Adaptations
of the Decade
And then some.
By
Emily Temple
| December 12, 2019
Developers plan to turn the setting of Joyce's "The Dead" into a 56-room hostel.
By
Emily Temple
| November 8, 2019
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November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"