Lit List: Thursday October 20, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: An oral history of death, the real meaning of "locker room banter" and "nasty," and young Afro-Modernists in Nigeria.
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Lit List: Friday October 7, 2016
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How the Marquis de Sade came from the Bastille Prison to the Western Canon; the first great post-Brexit novel; and why Ursula K. Le Guin is tired of yelling into the void.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday September 14, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: A history of David Foster Wallace’s "The Pale King," editing Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, and the illustrator that helped Charles Darwin identify bird specimens.
Read MoreLit List: Friday September 9, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Faked deaths, the survival of public libraries, and the rebirth of an anthology of essays by disgruntled wives.
Read MoreLit List: Friday September 2, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: The forgotten history of Florence's mixed-race Medici, a review of Jonathan Safran Foer's latest novel Here I Am, and the liberatory potential of the Zerox machine.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday August 31, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Rimbaud's posthumous memoirs, how one writer bore witness to Hiroshima, and why it's so important that more books are being written in patois.
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Lit List: Monday August 29, 2016
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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.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday August 24, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Tracy K. Smith on God, poetry, and parenting in New York City; Portugal's first modernist novelist makes it to America; and recurring characters in Edward P. Jones' short stories.
Read MoreLit List: Tuesday August 23, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Is Kanye West's McDonald’s poem a parable of class struggle; an excerpt from Patti Smith's M Train; authenticity and Percival Everett’s Erasure; Victorian London’s dirty book trade; and Curtis Sittenfeld on being reviewed.
Read MoreLit List: Monday August 22, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: The battle to save Langston Hughes' Harlem brownstone; a new book on the 1971 Attica prison uprising; Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexeievich on Putin's Russia; and what fairytales tell us about online behavior.
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