The city center of Glasgow, Scotland—that iron-and-glass-forged, cobblestoned fortress of a hilly, rainy, foggy metropolis—is bisected by the dueling high streets of Buchanan and Sauchiehall. There are any number of landmarks to draw your attention if ambling down either of these bustling thoroughfares as the last squibs of Caledonian light fight their...

TODAY: Remembering Alice Munro.  The great Alice Munro has died. We remember her life and work. | Lit Hub “True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.” Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song. | Lit Hub Criticism “I’m human, I’m working...

When the French writer Annie Ernaux delivered her lecture upon receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, the announcement cited the “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory.” Almost a year earlier, the curator and writer Lou Stoppard had been noticing the Ernaux...

Freud figured everybody wanted one. “It consists in attributing to everyone, including females, the possession of a penis, such as the boy knows from his own body. And: the boy’s estimate of its value is logically reflected in his inability to imagine a person like himself without this essential element.” There’s a lot, as they say in grad school,...

The following is from Working, Studs Terkel’s the classic oral history of Americans’ working lives. * Babe Secoli She’s a checker at a supermarket. She’s been at it for almost thirty years. “I started at twelve—a little, privately owned grocery store across the street from the house. They didn’t have no cash registers. I used to mark the prices down...

“Sometimes I think, She’s so funny and smart and interesting,” Kim Deal famously said about her twin sister and Breeders bandmate, Kelly Deal. “Other times I think, Oh my god, I want to take a knife and gouge her eyes out, she’s getting on my last nerve right now.” I grew up idolizing Kelly and Kim, and their complicated relationship only made them...