Noah Baldino on the Georgia Review‘s Spring 2024 Issue — October 2025 Dear Chill Subs Writers— To be a magazine that truly represents the full stock of literary imagination means valuing emerging writers as much as established ones. The Georgia Review ta…
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Meet Britain's Hikikomori - Longreads — "A growing number of young Brits are withdrawing from society. Some don't leave the house for months. We met their families."
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Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
Lit Hub Daily: May 22, 2026 — Everyone is an AI cop now, even if they don’t know it: a past Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner weighs in on the recent scandal. | Lit Hub Criticism Does Xi Jinping really think China is Athens…
DONKEY.BAS — IBM PC (1981) — Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC.
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“Hemlock, 1956,” a Poem by Victoria Chang — A wooden door in front of everything. A door on my country. A door in the lake. My poems prefer wooden hunting dogs. If I say there is a door on my heart in the poem, then there is. Now I can open …
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What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness? — I am often challenged about what sort of canon I am engaged in the creation of—about what the totality of the books I work on means together, what translating Vladimir Sorokin plus Michael Lentz pl…
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…