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Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

“The Fifth Story”

“The Fifth Story”

Clarice Lispector

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 1, 2025

Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

The Author of “Creation Lake” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Rachel Kushner | September 3, 2024

Ceremony"> A Rare Sacred Novel: Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em

A Rare Sacred Novel: Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em

Ceremony">A Rare Sacred Novel: Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

From the Foreword to a New Edition of the Classic Native American Novel

By Tommy Orange | March 12, 2024

Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

Mary Lane Potter Considers Stories by Clarice Lispector, Kevin McIlvoy, and Alva Noë

By Mary Lane Potter | January 19, 2024

The Apple in the Dark

The Apple in the Dark

Clarice Lispector (trans. Benjamin Moser)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 4, 2023

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"The Woman Who Killed the Fish"

Clarice Lispector, trans. Benjamin Moser

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 10, 2021

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on the Ambiguous and Unfolding Process of Healing

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By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 1, 2021

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Cynthia Cruz Recommends Books by Didier Eribon, Mark Fisher, Clarice Lispector, and More

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17 new books to find at your local library.

17 new books to find at your local library.

By Katie Yee | April 13, 2021

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