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Fiction
Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
“Imperfect and thorny, but just strange enough to kindle fear.”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 31, 2025
Where to start with the writing of Jamaica Kincaid.
By
Brittany Allen
| October 16, 2025
Read the Winners of
American Short Fiction’
s 2025 Insider Prize
Selected by Manuel Muñoz
By
Literary Hub
| September 11, 2025
Amity
Nathan Harris
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| September 3, 2025
Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa's
The Leopard
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By
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
| August 27, 2025
“Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine
Sam Wachman Unpacks the Challenges of Sharing Truths in Fiction
By
Sam Wachman
| August 13, 2025
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| July 11, 2025
Three Kids, Three Pasts: Tennessee Hill on Using Multiple POVs to Explore Shared Memory
By
Tennessee Hill
| June 25, 2025
Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction
By
Janelle Brown
| June 12, 2025
What Do Americans
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Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer
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By
Tom Comitta
| June 4, 2025
Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s
The Healers
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By
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| June 4, 2025
What Writing for
The Wonder Years
Taught Me About Novels
Mark B. Perry Celebrates the Quieter Freedoms of Fiction
By
Mark B. Perry
| May 12, 2025
Here are all the new Guggenheim fellows in the literary arts.
By
Brittany Allen
| April 15, 2025
Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris
Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”
By
Sally Rooney
| April 8, 2025
January’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Featuring Han Kang, Adam Haslett, Adam Ross, and More
By
Book Marks
| January 31, 2025
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
291 Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year
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| January 7, 2025
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7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
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…"