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“The beauty is that it will all end, and that is the most terrible beauty of all.”

By Akwaeke Emezi | August 18, 2025

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

In Which There’s No Wrong Way to Write a Book

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2024

Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

KB Brookins Recommends Leslie Feinberg, Akwaeke Emezi, C. Riley Snorton, and More

By KB Brookins | July 8, 2024

Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

The Author of “Little Rot” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 27, 2024

Rachel Cusk! Francine Prose! Thom Gunn! 27 new books out today.

Rachel Cusk! Francine Prose! Thom Gunn! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 18, 2024

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Jiaming Tang, Jessie Ren Marshall, Brittany Rogers, Alana Saab and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts

By Samantha Paige Rosen | June 7, 2024

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“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

By Yogita Goyal | May 21, 2024

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

By Sakiru Adebayo | December 18, 2023

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

By Katie Fustich | January 9, 2023

Listen to a Future Fable From Akwaeke Emezi: “The River Cat’s Brother”

Listen to a Future Fable From Akwaeke Emezi: “The River Cat’s Brother”

Future Fables Podcast Series, in Partnership with Aesop">From Our Future Fables Podcast Series, in Partnership with Aesop

By Future Fables | October 6, 2022

Future Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults">Introducing <emFuture Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults">

Future Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults">Introducing Future Fables, Bedtime Stories for Adults

Our Latest Podcast, in Partnership with Aesop

By Future Fables | October 3, 2022

Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Readings From Contemporary Nigeria

Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Readings From Contemporary Nigeria

Lola Jaye Recommends Wole Soyinka, Biyi Bandele, Akwaeke Emezi, and More

By Lola Jaye | September 8, 2022

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at White Whale Bookstore

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at White Whale Bookstore

Staff Favorites From Pittsburgh’s White Whale

By Literary Hub | August 15, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kendra Allen is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kendra Allen is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | August 11, 2022

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 4, 2022

The Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List

Math + Books = ???

By Emily Temple | June 17, 2022

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