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Why Carlos Labbé’s The Murmuration is a soccer novel for lovers of the weird.
“It astonished me, how far an act of violence could spread.” On what humans do to the natural world (and to each other).
Courtney Maum, Ben Fountain, Deb Olin Unferth, and more authors answer 7 questions about writing life.
Why just kill your darlings when you can murder them?
“Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty.” Read from Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel, Villa Coco.
How “The Seneca Bear Hunter” killed the last Eastern Elk in America.
What art depicting dogs can teach us about humans.
Love this wide-ranging list of books about human-animal ties, including one written & translated by WWB contributors
Mohamed Makhzangi and Chip Rossetti.
I like soccer. I like fiction. So I'm thrilled that Golden Goal and @literaryhub.bsky.social published this missive on the greatest novel about soccer and psychic powers of all time. (Thanks, @alexshephard.bsky.social!) lithub.com/is-this-the-...
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Thank you to @jessiegaynor.bsky.social at @literaryhub.bsky.social for giving SCRAP THEORY a boost! lithub.com/sneaking-the...
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
Tobias Carroll
This piece was published in collaboration with Golden Goal, a literary magazine about the intersection of politics, culture and sport at the 2026 World Cup. To read more, visit their website: golde…
It’s difficult to say with certainty when the last eastern elk was killed, but most accounts agree that Jim Jacobs pulled the trigger. Known as “The Seneca Bear Hunter,” Jacobs had killed hundreds …
This piece was published in collaboration with Golden Goal, a literary magazine about the intersection of politics, culture and sport at the 2026 World Cup. To read more, visit their website: golde…
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Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …
Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to …
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Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty. I took the Baronessa’s comment to mean I was to wear my best clothes; of course I had packed only one jacket and tie, and that only because I…
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Dogs have long occupied a position at the boundary where the human animal meets the rest of creation. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin thought that the artists of Renaissance Venice—Titian, V…
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (Al…
There is already a Black feminist tradition of using the arts as historical preservation. A dynamic sampling of contemporary literature and art created by Black women considers the forms of poetry,…
These books by Geraldine Brooks, Takashi Hiraide, Lydia Milett, and more center relationships between people and animals.
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From birth, we’re surrounded by animals. We cling to stuffed animal friends, wear clothing adorned with bunnies and bears, and listen to stories of anthropomorphized creatures. The first books we e…
