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Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

The Author of “An Oral History of Atlantis” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2025

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures

Shubha Sunder Recommends W.G. Sebald, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Sigrid Nuñez, and More

By Shubha Sunder | March 20, 2025

First-Person, Secondhand: Nine Books on Migration That Experiment with Point of View

First-Person, Secondhand: Nine Books on Migration That Experiment with Point of View

Chris Campanioni Recommends Olga Tokarczuk, Dubravka Ugrešić, Anna Seghers, and More

By Chris Campanioni | March 14, 2025

“Theories of Influence,” a Poem by Anselm Berrigan

“Theories of Influence,” a Poem by Anselm Berrigan

From the Collection “Don’t Forget to Love Me”

By Anselm Berrigan | September 13, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | October 20, 2022

Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

Alyssa Quinn Recommends Claude Simon, Yoko Tawada, Lydia Davis, and More

By Alyssa Quinn | October 3, 2022

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Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

By Samantha Hunt | April 13, 2022

Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

By Yara Zgheib | January 4, 2022

Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The 1619 Project, and more">John Banville on Picasso, Lauren Oyler on Sebald, Adam Hochschild on The 1619 Project, and more

By Book Marks | November 18, 2021

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

Carole Angier Considers How History Shaped Sebald as a Writer

By Carole Angier | October 14, 2021

The Emigrants"> On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s <em

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s <em

The Emigrants">

The Emigrants">On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

Lit Century Podcast ">This Week From the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | July 7, 2021

Elisa Gabbert on Living in a Era of Eternal Apocalypse

Elisa Gabbert on Living in a Era of Eternal Apocalypse

Keen On Podcast">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 2, 2021

These are our favorite New Directions books from their 85 (!) years of publishing.

These are our favorite New Directions books from their 85 (!) years of publishing.

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2021

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

and Writing Life">Mark Haber Traces an Indispensable Influence on His Reading
and Writing Life

By Mark Haber | March 17, 2021

The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

Three Rings ">James K.A. Smith on the Radical Interconnectedness of Three Rings

By James K.A. Smith | October 16, 2020

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