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A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon... Or Both?

A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon... Or Both?

“When you're disgustingly wealthy, your days don’t have to be touched by banal oppressors, like the office or public transportation.”

By Brittany Allen | July 10, 2025

Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)

Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)

“I needed to know about houses—big and rambling houses, and how they alter people.”

By Dwyer Murphy | May 16, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

Katherine J. Chen Rediscovers James (and Falls in Love)

By Katherine J. Chen | December 19, 2024

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Merve Emre and Adam Dalva in Conversation About a New Edition of a Victorian Classic

By Literary Hub | November 27, 2024

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How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

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By Tara Isabella Burton | June 27, 2023

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“That queasy opacity is at the heart of the novella’s power... The reader is never sure what, exactly, is happening.”

By Kate Griffin | June 5, 2023

Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

Elizabeth Winkler Argues the Mystery Behind the God of Iambic Thunder Is Part of the Thrill

By Elizabeth Winkler | May 15, 2023

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

Emily Franklin Recommends Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and More

By Emily Franklin | April 13, 2023

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

Former Prison Librarian Blair Austin Wonders Where We Go When We Read

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

Cathleen Schine on Framing Narratives and Trusting the Reader

By Cathleen Schine | March 14, 2023

This 120-year-old Henry James novella is coming to the big screen.

This 120-year-old Henry James novella is coming to the big screen.

By Dan Sheehan | January 19, 2023

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