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In case you missed them, here are the best (new) books the Lit Hub staff read this year. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Jen Benka considers art in the era of ChatGPT and why poetry definitely isn’t dead. | Lit Hub Criticism

On the latest episode of The Lit Hub Podcast, Merve Emre announces new seasons of The Critic and Her Publics, Jonny Diamond and Drew Broussard ask for your money, and Lit Hub’s own McKayla Coyle, Oliver Scialdone, and Calvin Kasulke join Drew for an awards season round-table. | Lit Hub Radio

Gabrielle Korn on desire, bodily autonomy, and why cli-fi needs more queer sex: “Carson’s work never discussed queer themes explicitly, but it’s hard to ignore the influence her queerness had.” | Lit Hub Criticism

“The fact that I can’t name one favorite book after this year is, I think, a good thing.” Angela Baggetta shares what she learned from a year of rereading books. | Lit Hub Craft

Jane Ciabattari talks to Anita Felicelli about speculative fiction and how existential anxiety can build a short story collection. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Julia Armfield, Gabrielle Korn, and more! These 23 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“She had started looking in winter, browsing rental sites recommended by friends who went away for long periods of summer and knew about this stuff.” Read from Weike Wang’s new novel, Rental House. | Lit Hub Fiction

A stunningly original epic fantasy about openness, love, and creativity from the boundless imaginations that brought you the Tomorrowland Festival, featuring an afterword by DJ Steve Aoki.

Kindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection by author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis.

Oscar Schwartz considers the literary merit of Amazon reviews. | The New Yorker

“Ray Johnson, like Emily Dickinson, dreamed of an unworldly art: the sheen without the moon.” Ellen Levy on the connection between two artists. | The MIT Press Reader

Mark Minster reflects on the difficulty of teaching the Bible to mixed groups of students. | Slate

“There has been an extraordinary shift in public opinion about this war, relatively swiftly.” Rashid Khalidi and Mark O’Connell in conversation about Gaza, America, and genocide. | New York Review of Books

Bruno Leipold chronicles how Karl Marx became a communist. | Jacobin

“After my teenage years, I started noticing how fear and anxiety manifested in my body and how… recent traumas from wars, political corruption, and lack of safety conditioned my body.” Joseph Kai on trauma, power, and comics. | The Comics Journal

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a story of three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world.

Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world.

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