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Your daily dose of must-read literary news and commentary.
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 MoreToday 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.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: The narcissism in all of us; the decline’ of White Christian America explained; The Little Prince on film; literary meals and edible masterpieces from beloved books; and vegetarians in literary fiction.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: A message for the next President from fifty American poets and writers including George Saunders and Junot Diaz; J.K. Rowling announces three more Harry Potter books; and Idra Novey on disappearances.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: A children's book by Gertrude Stein; the dangers of nostalgia, from ancient Greece to Ann Coulter; the New Realists; a biography of the worst opera singer of all time; and Samuel Beckett's SAT questions.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Hunter Thompson's widow returns Hemingway's antlers; Chasing Amy and the toxic “nerd masculinity” of the nineties; and library use in England falls dramatically.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Arielle Greenberg on sexuality, feminism and finding the right bra; Sandra Cisneros on her first apartment and learning how to be alone; and Taraji P. Henson plays a math genius in Hidden Figures, the film adaptation of a new nonfiction book on black female NASA scientists.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: The iconic oral history of punk, revisited; the Los Angeles Review of Books takes a look at Helen Oyeyemi's short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours; and a university press launches a new space for African-American voices
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Black protest writing from W.E.B. DuBois to Kendrick Lamar; reading Kurt Vonnegut while deployed in Iraq; Margaret Atwood scopes out Comic-Con; and an end to a long-running dispute over an unpublished Kafka manuscript.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Literature's fascination with homelessness; the legacy of Nat Turner; and is fiction and addiction?
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