• Literary Criticism

    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    Plus: Ryan Chapman Calls in About the Booker Prize Winner

     
    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Love Interbellum”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 14, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 14, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  November 14, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    What If?

    Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

    By Padma Viswanathan  November 14, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 14, 2024
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires: How The Great Gatsby Changed the Landscape of New York City

    By John Marsh  November 13, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Richard Price, Joan Didion & Eve Babitz, Katherine Rundell, and More

    By Book Marks  November 15, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 12, 2024
    Black Activism

    Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

    By W. Ralph Eubanks  November 12, 2024
    Poetry

    The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

    By Literary Hub  November 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

    Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Man in the Banana Trees”

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 12, 2024
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

    By Ann Patchett  November 11, 2024
    In Conversation

    On Poetry as Historical Record, the Legacy of Colonialism, and Depicting Disaster in Verse

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 7, 2024
    Publishing

    The Book News is Generally… Good?

    Maris Kreizman Finds Some Silver Linings

    By Maris Kreizman  November 7, 2024
    Poets

    “A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

    By Dai George  November 7, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Puerto Ricans, Trump, and the Election

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 7, 2024
    Letters

    In Search of a Time Lost: A Selection of Proust’s Letters Translated by Lydia Davis

    By Literary Hub  November 6, 2024
    On Identity

    How a Novel by Mildred D. Taylor Helped Glory Edim Understand Being Black in the South

    The Author of “Gather Me” Reflects on Navigating Her Nigerian and American Identities

    By Glory Edim  November 6, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Ryan Chapman Predicts the Booker Prize

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 6, 2024
    Mysteries

    Among the Sleuths: Looking for Answers at the Nancy Drew Convention

    By Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood  November 5, 2024
    Filipino Literature

    A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

    By Patrick Rosal  November 13, 2024
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