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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 14h

“If their case was being discussed on a national level, why wasn’t the same thing happening for all the other kidnapped children?” Read from Brenda Lozano’s novel Mothers, translated by Heather Cleary.

Mothers

The little girl’s case became a topic of conversation on the street and in offices and homes. Thanks to their privilege, the Miranda Felipe family had been able to get special treatment from the po…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 14h

Read Andrew Ervin’s January 2001 take on The Melancholy of Resistance.

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 15h

“These young people, Gen Z Madagascar, will bring down entire paradigms of thought.” Raharimanana on Madagascar’s revolutions.

The Island of Pirates: Raharimanana on Madagascar’s Revolutions, Past and Present

Translated by Allison M. Charette 2002: Books were burning in front of my father’s house. There was the military. And the militias. Who, by ousting the dictator, were already setting up a new syste…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 15h

@maassp.bsky.social unpacks the sensationalist journalism of Richard Harding Davis, America’s first star war reporter.

How America’s First Star War Reporter Set the Tone For a Century of Journalism

Richard Harding Davis is regarded by many as the first war correspondent of modern American journalism—not because he was the first to cover nineteenth-century warfare, but because he attracted a l…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16h

“Its impacts can be seen in multiple ways, from the minuscule size of reservations, often called ‘rancherias,’ to the number of tribes that were terminated in the 1950s and remain federally unrecognized.” On the past and present of violence against Indigenous people in California.

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

In June 2019, the Los Angeles Times published an exposé revealing that companies had secured over $300 million in government contracts based on wrongful claims to Cherokee heritage since 2000. The …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17h

Is the Left really a threat to free speech when the Right’s on book-banning spree?
@maris.bsky.social sets the record straight.

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17h

Pat Lipsky remembers the alliances, rivalries, and New York art world clout at Max’s Kansas City in the 70’s.

A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

There were two choices for dinner at Max’s Kansas City: lobster or steak. I always ordered steak. My boyfriend favored lobster. He never paid the tab. After a year or so he gave the owner a sculptu…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 18h

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 18h

“A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.
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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Dan Pipenbring on Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification, Alexandra Kleeman on Katherine Dunn’s Near Flesh, Becca Rothfeld on Steven Pinker’s When Everyone…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19h

“When white people talk about how we “made it,” we must also acknowledge that whiteness is an invisible and built-in advantage in how we achieve success.” @georgianndavis.bsky.social explains why, despite similar experiences, she isn’t like JD Vance.

When the American Dream Goes Sideways; Or, Why I Am Not Like JD Vance

“It’s in right now to be with an Indian girl,” Mom quipped after seeing Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, flash across the Fox News screen she was watching. “Please,” I begged, “please do…

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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast @fnfpodcast.bsky.social · 21h

Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric in Trump's second term.
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Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation an…

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Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social · 20h

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket

It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20h

Sarah Curtis on what happens when the songwriter behind “I Fought the Law” is your dad.

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 4:47 PM Subject: Re: Two quick “I Fought the Law” questions Hi Randal, Thank you for your interest in “I Fought the Law.” To answer your qu…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20h

“His insanity matches how insane I feel the world is right now.” Waiting in line with Thomas Pynchon fans for the midnight release of Shadow Ticket.
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In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket

It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Kirkus Reviews has announced the three winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

“When I had extricated myself, and my money, from the villain’s clutches, I turned to find my wife gone from the bench on the platform where she had sat down to wait for me.” Read from John Banville’s new novel, Venetian Vespers.

Venetian Vespers

The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindran…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

“In all the time I was struggling to nurture my babies, the key to understanding true nourishment lay in satisfying my own body.” @ypathak.bsky.social on motherhood and acts of care.

Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids

Ma mixed boiling dal with buttered rice scooped with her fingers taste of her skin lilt of her tale in my mouth as she sang, bite after bite: one for the village children one for you –“I Have Eaten…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Caren Beilin’s TBR features books by Isabella Hammad, Stephen King, Lana Lin, and more.

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison, like her much of her other work, attends to the terrible realities of the medical industry and the personal effect this has on people. (She wrote about how he…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

@philippesands.bsky.social examines Pinochet’s Chile, the Nazis, and how democracy erodes into fascism.

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

It was October 17, 1998, a Saturday afternoon, when I heard the news on the radio, waiting for the football results. It was my thirty-eighth birthday. The former Chilean dictator, General Augusto P…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

@shannonbowring.bsky.social considers the art of getting inside a despicable character’s head.

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

I have always been fascinated by the question of whether our lives are determined by fate or by choice. In the final installment of The Dalton Novels, a trilogy about a small town in Maine, my char…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Rebecca Sugar is bringing Moomins to a screen near you.

A new Moomins movie is on the way.

Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Venita Green on how learning Italian improved her writing in English: “By reading other cultures widely, we can start to see that there truly are countless ways to tell a story.”

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

When I was thirty-eight years old, in late 2017, it began to feel inexcusable that I was living out my entire life in the typical American fashion: speaking a single language. After all, I spent si…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive).

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe

Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

“The Fairfield Day Academy campus was just a big, ranch-style house discreetly set in a quiet residential neighborhood.” Read from The Four Spent the Day Together, a new novel by Chris Kraus.

The Four Spent the Day Together

The Fairfield Day Academy campus was just a big, ranch-style house discreetly set in a quiet residential neighborhood. The treatment was new and Blue Cross didn’t cover it. Except for the office se…

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