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Literature’s Best Dad Moments: Author quotes to share this father’s day. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature,” said Antoine Prévost.

Paul Tremblay has made a career of pushing the horror genre in new directions. This time, a woman must use a video-game-like controller to get a man, stuck in a vegetative state, across the country.

The future is lesbian, or at least it can be in sapphic speculative fiction. Part of the power of speculative fiction is that it allows marginalized people to imagine worlds in which our dreams are front and center, a landscape that takes what is and reimagines it into what could be. As a nonbinary lesbian…

“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system.

Robin Farquharson was a prize-winning game theorist, anti-apartheid activist and countercultural chaos merchantEven as an undergraduate, Robin Farquharson was famous for being erratic. He provoked anxiety and goodwill in equal measure. His aim in life, according to an anonymous writer in an Oxford student newspaper, was “to become a contradiction in terms. Since last October, he has been…

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Alex Murdaugh’s conviction for the murder of his wife and son was recently overturned. Where does the truth lie?In March 2023, 54-year-old Alex Murdaugh received two life sentences for murdering his wife and younger son at the family’s hunting lodge in Colleton County, South Carolina. Since the early 20th century, three generations of his family…

Like so many others (including the Pulitzer Prize committee), I read Andrew Sean Greer’s Less in 2017 and was endlessly charmed by the singularity of Greer’s voice. Rollicking through vivid landscapes and madcap scenarios, Greer’s novels commit to comedy and eccentricity, standing out in an often muted literary landscape. His newest book, Villa Coco, set…

Why the elder Millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and being let down. | Lit Hub Memoir Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial solidarity of mid-century Minneapolis. | Lit Hub History

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