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Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 18, 2025

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

“I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

By Sara Stridsberg | September 15, 2025

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

By Maris Kreizman | August 28, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Talking Oscars and... Macbeths are #relationshipgoals?

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Talking Oscars and... Macbeths are #relationshipgoals?

Plus: Dan Sheehan and Omar El-Akkad

By The Lit Hub Podcast | February 28, 2025

Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

Dan Sheehan Talks to the Author of “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”

By Dan Sheehan | February 25, 2025

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Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 25, 2025

On the False Promise of Climate Fiction

By Emma Pattee | November 14, 2023

John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 19, 2023

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

“The sense of drowning comes with a clarity of sorts: you get to know intimately, if only for a few seconds.”

By Omar El Akkad | June 16, 2023

20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

By Katie Yee | June 1, 2022

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis

“Is there still work to be done? Is there still a world to love? The answer to both of these questions is yes.”

By Literary Hub | April 22, 2022

Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Omar El Akkad has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

By Snigdha Koirala | November 9, 2021

10 new books you'll want to read right now.

10 new books you'll want to read right now.

By Katie Yee | July 20, 2021

What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akkad

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 20, 2021

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By Storybound | July 6, 2021

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