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Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

From the Introduction to a New Translation of the Heavenly Portion of "The Divine Comedy"

By Mary Jo Bang | July 9, 2025

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

Deborah Baker on Richard Spencer, White Nationalism, and the Challenges of Covering Neo-Nazis

By Deborah Baker | June 3, 2025

"As I Was Lost There Also, the Two of Us Did Meet"

Elisa Levi (trans. Christina MacSweeney)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 20, 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

Kathryn Davis Couldn’t Live Without Musicals and Writes Fiction Like a Piano Player (and Other Tidbits)

Kathryn Davis Couldn’t Live Without Musicals and Writes Fiction Like a Piano Player (and Other Tidbits)

The Author of “Versailles” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | November 11, 2024

“Last Black American Poem,” a Poem by Danez Smith

“Last Black American Poem,” a Poem by Danez Smith

From the Collection “Bluff”

By Danez Smith | August 20, 2024

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"The Echo," a Poem by Mary Jo Bang

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“Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë / Sado).” A New Poem by Monica Youn

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Water Over Stones

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Bernardo Atxaga (Trans by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 17, 2022

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

“To write was, and still is, in some sense, to tattoo, to ink script upon skin.”

By Lars Horn | June 6, 2022

Lost and Coming to Terms with the Unknowable">Kathryn Davis on Bingeing <emLost and Coming to Terms with the Unknowable">

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“There is unearthly howling. There is a hatch leading who knows where.”

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The House of Rust

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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 27, 2021

Structural Play: 8 Books That Challenge Genre and Style

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Megan Milks Recommends Kiese Laymon, Sofia Samatar, and Others

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