Lit List: Monday August 29, 2016

Lit List: Monday August 29, 2016

Today on the Lit List: What our guilty TV pleasures can teach us about crafting narrative; Emily Brontë may have had Asperger syndrome; a condensed version of Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri's 14th-century compendium on the classical Islamic world; and the Beijing Book Fair.

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Lit List: Weekend of Friday August 5, 2016

Lit List: Weekend of Friday August 5, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Teju Cole talks and Taiye Selasi on photography, being pigeonholed, and "traveling while black"; a new Bridget Jones diary to be published in October; the role of women's hairstyles in World War II; and the New York Times reviews Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad.

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