Lit List: Weekend of Friday September 16, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Why cats might destroy the world, a novelist reviews fashion week, and fiction by Silvina Ocampo.
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Lit 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: Monday September 12, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Why Roald Dahl didn't lie to his readers, new books about Maya Lin, and Frankenstein's monster.
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: Wednesday September 7, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Bored white girls, alternatives to monogamy, classical Arabic love poetry, and the crabs that appeared on the New York subway.
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: Friday August 26, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Ben Lerner considers the hatred of poetry and Marie Ponsot celebrates its joys, on the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, a book by Terry Tempest Smith, and Ben Ehrenreich on objectivity, collectivism, and his book about Palestine.
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.
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