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A daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.

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Alok Khorana, MD@aakonc28 Apr 2025
My new piece on @DalrympleWill's Golden Road, which releases this week in the US- A Deeply Globalized Ancient World lithub.com/a-deeply-globaliz… via @lithub

A Deeply Globalized Ancient World: On William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road

It was my first visit to Tokyo. Thanks to a lost-in-translation miscommunication with my scientific colleagues, I found myself with an unexpectedly open daytime schedule. This is how I ended up alo…

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In honor of National Poetry I read two of my poems on the @lithub podcast. lithub.com/new-on-the-lit-hu…
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Loved this article so much, I became a yearly supporting member. $70 per year? Hell yeah brother
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@lithub24 Apr 2025
Stephen S. Hall explores the centuries-long evolution of the rattlesnake into an American symbol. lithub.com/how-the-rattlesna…

How the Rattlesnake Almost Became an Emblem of a Nascent America

Benjamin Franklin was a snake guy. In fact, one could argue that he is the quintessential snake guy of the entire American Experiment, not because he was a herpetologist or popularizer (although he…

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I love this, @nickripatrazone. @lithub lithub.com/the-most-literary…

The Most Literary Pope: Requiescat in Pace, Francis

Pope Francis is dead at 88, on the day after Easter—an appropriate Lenten epilogue for a pontiff with a keen sense of story. 60 years earlier, Francis was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit seminarian…

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Huzzah, for @lithub is 10!!! To celebrate, I'm posting the first major piece I ever wrote for the site, back in 2019. It's essential history. lithub.com/lord-byron-used-t…

Lord Byron used to call William Wordsworth “Turdsworth,” and yes, this is a real historical fact.

Excellent news for this bleak Tuesday, friends: the Romantic poets used to make fun of one another using (what else?) the kind of wordplay that reminds you they were basically all adolescent boys. …

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We are ten years old and still somehow going strong. lithub.com/happy-birthday-li…

Happy Birthday, Lit Hub, You’re Ten Years Old

Literary Hub was launched ten years ago today. It’s hard, now, to metabolize all that has happened in America—and in the world—since April 8, 2015, but I feel remarkably lucky to have spent the int…

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Novelist Alex Higley @higley_alex joins host @V_V_G to talk about his new novel, True Failure, as well as Shark Tank, two of the biggest American lies, and the media during the second reign of Donald Trump. @lithub lithub.com/alex-higley-on-tr…

Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank

Novelist Alex Higley joins host V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new novel, True Failure, in which a man fired from his job decides not to tell his wife what happened and attempts to change hi…

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"The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much." @lithub excerpts Ted Chiang's thoughtful introduction to "The Hampdenshire Wonder" by J.D. Beresford: lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-sup…

Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early...

J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder is generally considered to be the first fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, or “superintelligence.” This is a familiar trope for readers of scie…

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Free Mahmoud Khalil
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Well, let’s see if Adrien Brody grabs and kisses Cillian Murphy
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No one is talking enough about the incredible camerawork in “Nickel Boys”
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“Nosferatu” losing cinematography to ANY FILM is insane
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The team behind #NoOtherLand accepts the #Oscar for best documentary and speaks about the Iraeli-Palestinian conflict
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For once, with No Other Land, the best movie of the year in its category wins.
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Nickel Boys and Sing Sing you deserve so much more
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The filmmakers of ‘NO OTHER LAND’ accepting their #Oscar win “It reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still persists as we call to stop the injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestine”
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NO OTHER LAND!!!! No Other Land now has more Oscars than it did distribution offers. a great and enduring shame upon the American film industry. free Palestine forever.
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Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham speaking of the oppression and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people on a global stage. directly calling out the United States for their active participation in Israel’s actions. incredible.
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GUY PEARCE WEARING A PIN THAT ACTUALLY SAYS FREE PALESTINE AND NOT JUST A NEUTRAL CEASEFIRE PIN. IT WAS SO VISIBLE WHEN HE APPEARED ON SCREEN
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DARYL HANNAH, HELLO HELLO!!!!
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