Lit List: Wednesday October 12, 2016
/Today on the Lit List: Nobel Prize speculations; navigating singledom in Emily Witt's Future Sex; and Rebecca Solnit's feminist re-imagining of New York City.
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Today on the Lit List: Nobel Prize speculations; navigating singledom in Emily Witt's Future Sex; and Rebecca Solnit's feminist re-imagining of New York City.
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 British people always talk about the weather, the changing landscape of the Bronx, and why we'll be reading Marx for many years to come.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: The injustice of banning books in schools and prisons, why we were better off not knowing Elena Ferrante's real name, and fiction by Brit Bennett.
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: Philip K. Dick's neuroses, a haunted childhood in Indonesia, and madcap new fiction by Carl Hiaasen.
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