• Literary Criticism

    The Big List

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

    249 Books to Read Before the End of the Year

     
    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2025
    Poetry

    Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  June 30, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Defracted Universes, Memory Divers, and Darkest Academia: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  June 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2025
    Craft

    I’m Obsessed: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  June 27, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of July

    By AudioFile Magazine  June 27, 2025
    Paperbacks

    Joan Didion and Eve Babitz! Rachel Kushner! 25 books out in paperback this July.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 27, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 26, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

    Caroline Carlson Recommends Sue Soltis, Marzena Sowa, Sarah J. Mendonca, and More

    By Caroline Carlson  June 30, 2025
    Poetry

    For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

    By Cindy Juyoung Ok  June 26, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 26, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 26, 2025
    Thresholds

    Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

    By Thresholds   June 25, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Reading Lists

    5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 24, 2025
    Theater

    Eurydice at 18: On the Off-Broadway Revival of Sarah Ruhl’s Beloved Play

    Pamela Newton Considers the Impact of the ur-Ruhl Production

    By Pamela Newton  June 24, 2025
    Sisters

    Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

    By Fran Littlewood  June 24, 2025
    In Conversation

    Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 24, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV Lord of the Flies! 22 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 24, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

    Benjamin Hale Remembers His Literary Mentor

    By Benjamin Hale  June 23, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    “Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

    By Klara Feenstra  June 23, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
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