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- Isabella Hammad recommends essential books about Palestine, featuring work by Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How America’s gun violence epidemic affects us all: “I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.” | Lit Hub Politics
- In praise of yearning, longing, and the hallmarks of over-the-top romance. | Lit Hub Craft
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“I don’t think any new book appears out of nowhere, as if it materialized out of thin air or from the moon.” Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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- Richard Powers, Sally Rooney, Olga Tokarczuk and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “They follow you around the store, these power ballads, / you and the women with their shopping carts filled with eggs.” Read “Whitney Houston,” a poem by August Kleinzahler. | Lit Hub Poetry
- They’re more than just spooky symbols of Halloween. On why bats are companions, protectors, and muses. | Lit Hub Nature
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Richard Powers about humanity’s relationships with nature and technology: “The oceans have changed profoundly and alarmingly in the half century since I last dove there, and much of the book is haunted by those changes.” | Lit Hub In Conversation