Lit List: Thursday October 13, 2016
/Today on the Lit List: A legendary winged horse, but not the one you think; Rick Moody on the presidential election; and new fiction from Jonathan Lethem.
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Today on the Lit List: A legendary winged horse, but not the one you think; Rick Moody on the presidential election; and new fiction from Jonathan Lethem.
Read MoreHow 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 MoreToday on the Lit List: Why there are no novels about global warming, René Magritte's English-language writing debut, and a defense of the ellipsis...
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Virginia Woolf on the solitary daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the British postal service honors Agatha Christie; and an interview with a Vogue icon.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Why it's so damn fun to swear, how much Truman Capote's ashes are worth, and "the gayest book in Iceland."
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: A review of Alexandra Kleeman's short fiction, why there should be less school, and a new Afro-feminist coloring book.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Prison abolition, H.G. Wells' 150th birthday, and a new look at Ancient Egypt.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Why cats might destroy the world, a novelist reviews fashion week, and fiction by Silvina Ocampo.
Read MoreToday 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 MoreToday on the Lit List: Faked deaths, the survival of public libraries, and the rebirth of an anthology of essays by disgruntled wives.
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