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    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
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    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: GennaRose Nethercott’s “Sundown at the Eternal Staircase”

    By Drew Broussard  May 2, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Leaving Twitter, Publishing Poetry, and… Men Who Read?

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    The Craft of Writing

    “I Hope You Don’t Mind That I’ve Shared You.” Arianna Rebolini on Writing About Your Kid

    By Arianna Rebolini  May 2, 2025
    The Hub

    Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    An unsettling AI Agatha Christie is here to teach you how to write.

    By James Folta  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    A brief literary history of May Day.

    By Brittany Allen  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

    By Jonny Diamond  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 2, 2025
    Surfing

    Writing (and Riding) the Waves: Inside the History of “Surf Lit”

    By Dan Reiter  May 1, 2025
    Ancient Rome

    Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

    By Tom Holland  May 1, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

    By Charlotte Beradt  May 1, 2025
    Influences

    In Praise of the Dark and Innovative Genre-Bending of Twin Peaks

    Lauren Haddad Shares the Lynchian Influences That Shaped Her Debut Novel

    By Lauren Haddad  May 1, 2025
    Sports History

    How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America

    By Gerald Early  May 1, 2025
    The Hub

    A field guide to the readers you’ll see in public this spring.

    By James Folta  April 30, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

    By Zoe Roth  April 30, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in May

    In Case You’d Rather Be Inside

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2025
    Science fiction

    Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

    By Tobias Carroll  April 30, 2025
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers of April

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2025
    Plagues

    How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

    By Thomas Levenson  April 30, 2025
    Misogyny

    Just Another Cat Lady: On Navigating Casual Misogyny in Animal Rescue

    Courtney Gustafson Explores the Crude Gendered Expectations Projected Onto Humans and Felines Alike

    By Courtney Gustafson  April 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Pullman hive, attention! We’re getting one last Dark Material.

    By Brittany Allen  April 29, 2025
    Book Covers

    What Would These Iconic Movies Look Like As Books?

    By Matt Stevens  April 29, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”

    By Emily Temple  May 1, 2025
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