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A new Moomins movie is on the way. Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing in books, comics, TV series, movies, and theme parks
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Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists. Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner
07.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers finding his work through movies rather than university English departments. Throughout
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Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2025 “The Khalidi Library represents everything the settlers cannot abide. It is a monument to, and repository of, the history and heritage of a culture they claim should not exist.” Ryan Byrnes chronicles the fight to save a medieval Palestinian library.
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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, translated by Frederick A. Blossom * The
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Inventing Gertrude Stein, Literary Cubist Near the beginning of The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein breaks off abruptly to address her reader—“but truly,” she adds, “I never feel it that there ever can be for me any such a creature, no it is this scribbled
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How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store, noting, “My
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The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library While the golden Dome of the Rock sweltered under one-hundred-degree heat a gang of heavily armed orthodox Israelis marched on a Palestinian library. Brandishing forged documents falsely claiming their ownership of the building, they enlisted the help of Israeli police
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Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important is the effort to imagine the
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Why We Write the Extra Details Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable
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The House of Leaves-inspired game MyHouse.wad is just as trippy as you’d think. This demon shooting video game mod might be your new favorite book. MyHouse.wad is a 2023 mod—short for modification, in this case a series of custom levels—for 1994’s Doom II, the second in a franchise of wildly influential games that
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Here are the most banned books of 2025. As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectionable” titles may surprise you. If we consider censored books by theme, critique of an
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Guess which top college is launching a “creator economy” program? I’ll give you a hint. They bleed orange and blue and Dinosaur B-B-Q. Last week, Syracuse University announced the launch of a new Center for the Creator Economy. The first academic hub of its kind on a U.S. college campus,
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Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died. One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the Nazi concentration camp at
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Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2025 How Palestinian teacher Ikram Talaat Ahmed transformed Gaza’s displacement tents into schools: “We are nearing the end of the academic year, yet the Israeli war on Gaza continues.” | Lit Hub Politics “To me, writing about sex work has always
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Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, certainly didn’t see a need to clock in every
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Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika Unlike the obsessive protagonists of The Trial and The Castle, who draw us into their labyrinthine thinking, Karl Rossmann, the naive young hero of Kafka’s Amerika or, to use Kafka’s own title, Der Verschollene (“The Missing Person”), bumbles through the
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Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee Camps Before the war, I worked as an English language teacher at a kindergarten in the Gaza Strip. In the evenings, I gave private lessons to students at my own educational centre beneath my house. I had been working since university,
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My Child Does Not Love to Read, And I’m (Starting to Be) Okay With That Last fall in Maine, my eleven-year-old son contacted a sharpshooter and requested two deer heads. Once or twice a year on Peaks Island, where we live, a professional marksman ventures into the woods at night to cull deer and maintain
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What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration More than twenty years ago, I walked into Kremer Pigment, a small shop in lower Manhattan, and by the time I left, I had the idea for a novel—a story about pigment—and had signed up for a workshop in traditional
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How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing When my essay about paying for $42,000 worth of dental work with sugar baby money first ran in HuffPost Personal, I was thrilled. Having only published in small literary magazines before, I wasn’t used to the feeling of strangers actually
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“It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not.” When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment Dystopian fiction is getting real, and I’m here for it. I don’t think I’m the only one. There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world. As a science fiction reader and avid fan, I find that dystopian
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Ada Limón on Opening Awareness First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin,
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Lit Hub Weekly: September 29 – October 3, 2025 “Laying someone to rest is the final act of care that leaves a lingering impression, not only on the dead, but on you.” Eden Royce on the importance of funerary details in the face of grief. | Lit Hub Memoir
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This week’s news in Venn diagrams. Welcome, officially, to the first Friday of spooky season. The stores are full of candy for sale and those giant yard skeletons are starting to unfurl themselves. Hope you’re starting to feel the vibes and already have some great costume
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Here’s what’s making us happy this week. The theme this week is running-up-that-hill. Here at Lit Hub, we’re questing for answers. In the Kingdom of Hollownest, or ancient Egypt. We’re trying to keep the dream alive while that big wheel keeps on turning. And we’re accepting invitations
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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father watched on. Conor was stoic
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week Lily King’s Heart the Lover, Mariana Enriquez’s Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, and Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Pick a Color all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book
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Lit Hub Daily: October 3, 2025 “I found it hard to articulate the way a word could take up space in a body.” Sarah Viren talks to Alex Niemi, translator of Laura Vazquez‘s The Endless Week. | Lit Hub On Translation Christopher Spaide recommends new poetry
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The Art of Board Books and Psychedelic Magazines on The Lit Hub Podcast A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. Spooky season is upon us! It’s Drew’s favorite month and he’s got a whole
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