Literature

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Lit Hub Daily: March 25, 2025
The terror of the ludicrous
Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era
Graydon Carter on The Golden Age of Magazines
Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential
Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction
The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life
A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics
Elphie
A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.
Here are the winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Lit Hub Daily: March 24, 2025
What the Mysterious Mating Habits of an Enigmatic Species Reveal About the Secrets of Evolution
On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories
How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza
Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”
Farid Mutak on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse
Little Meals for Little Ones: On the Joys of Sharing the Kitchen With Children
“An Attempt at Human Relations”