• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

    Meg Serino Recommends Elif Batuman, Julie Buntin, Emma Cline and More

     
    By Meg Serino  May 21, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    In Conversation

    Talk Fiction: Adelaide Faith on Turning an Obsession with Her Therapist into a Novel

    By Chelsea Hodson  May 19, 2025
    Influences

    Actually, It’s Ok to Steal Your Ideas. Sort Of… (Or: Learning to Love My Literary Influences)

    By Bryan VanDyke  May 19, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    “Don Quixote,” Proto-Feminist Text: How Cervantes’ Daughter Shaped His Novel

    By Martha Bátiz  May 19, 2025
    Short Stories

    One great short story to read today: Alistair MacLeod, “To Everything There Is a Season”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

    By Hannah Benson  May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  May 16, 2025
    Food Writing

    Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

    Adam Roberts Recommends Culinary Moments from Nora Ephron, Charles Dickens, Bryan Washington, and More

    By Adam Roberts  May 20, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 15, 2025
    Bookstores

    Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

    By Monica Macansantos  May 15, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

    By Literary Hub  May 14, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway

    By Marisa Charpentier  May 14, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

    By Mia Manzulli  May 14, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

    By Mark Hussey  May 14, 2025
    The Cosmic Library

    The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

    The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

    By The Cosmic Library   May 14, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Neither Plot Nor Character, But… Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

    By Lincoln Michel  May 13, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  May 13, 2025
    In Conversation

    Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 13, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rebecca Solnit! Ocean Vuong! Axe murders! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 13, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 15, 2025
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