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On November 23, 2018, the Special Investigation Team submitted a charge sheet accusing eighteen men of conspiring together to murder activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh. By then they’d arrested sixteen of those men. The two remaining men were still at large. The charge sheet was a whopping 9,235 pages in length, a record of all the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement I always take my characters grocery shopping when I’m working on a novel. I like to push a cart around a supermarket, deciding what my character will buy. It’s the single best way for me to understand a character well enough

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Dolphin whistles are just what the name implies: a high-pitched tone that goes up and down in a complicated way, and it is that diversity in the whistles that has fascinated scientists, and absorbed huge amounts of time and effort into answering two questions: why are these whistles so diverse and what do they mean?

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1847, Emily Dickinson graduates from Amherst Academy, where she studied English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, “mental philosophy,” and arithmetic. “Perhaps it isn’t such a big deal if the algorithm knows me well enough…but what if that kind of surveillance is taken to

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Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka, the second novel of hers I’ve translated, is a tour de force of structure, carrying readers across space and time: from central Europe to western Europe, the US west coast to the US east coast; from before World War II to after the war, through the 1960s and up to

I don’t reread books (I really don’t) but you’ll note that one of the things a lot of the books on my “best of the century” list have in common is that I have read them not once, not twice, but many times. That’s because books like Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts give

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1914, Tove Jansson is born.  “I need to know if my character shops for convenience or comfort. If she’s buying ingredients for elaborate recipes, or frozen ready-meals.” Flynn Berry on grocery shopping as a means of character development. | Lit Hub Craft Alex Zucker on

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For our ancestors in the early 1800s, the discovery of bones and footprints was thrilling, bewildering news. This was not just another scientific discovery, like the sighting of a new moon around a distant planet. This was proof of life where no one had ever imagined it. Article continues after advertisement Think of modern-day astronomers

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Walmart Gets Saucy If you’ve been wanting to turn your book club into an episode of Hot Ones,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1965, Shirley Jackson dies.  Are you the asshole if you want to tell your friends they have bad taste in poetry? Kristen Arnett answers this awkward question and more. | Lit Hub Craft What was it like to see something no one had ever seen

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August 7, 2024, 10:49am A group of poet laureates across the United States were awarded $50,000 each from The Academy of American Poets as part of The Academy’s Fellowship Prize. The group represents a diverse body, and the funding will go towards unique projects in their communities, everything from collecting and publishing local voices, to

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused