Literary Hub

Featured

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

Thirteen Essential Books by Trans and Queer Writers,
Reviewed by Trans and Queer Writers
Featured

Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health
Featured

Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

Anna North in Conversation with the author of The Complex
Featured

Why Jane Austen Adaptations Just Keep Coming—And We Keep Watching

Lauren W. Westerfield on Privilege and Money in Austen’s Works

On the Power of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, One of the Most Banned Books of Its Era

By Nico Mara-McKay

On Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby as “Portable Fortress of Dreams”

By Alexander Chee

On the Pure Pleasure of Plot in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

By Harron Walker

On Hail Mary, an Important History of American Women Playing Tackle Football

By Julie Kliegman

On the Struggle to Be a Good Man in Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

By Costa Beavin Pappas

On T Cooper’s Early Meditations on Being a Trans Man, Real Man Adventures

By Calvin Kasulke

“By a Trans Woman, About Trans Women, For Trans Readers.” On Imogen Binnie’s Nevada

By Denne Michele Norris

On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free

By Alexis Clements

On Kai Cheng Thom’s Genre-Bending “Confabulous Memoir” Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

By Emory Oakley

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Your
Daily Fiction

On the Daily Humanity of Trans Life in Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman

By Calvin Gimpelevich

On Recognition, Truth, and Otherness in Shola Von Reinhold’s LOTE

By Bianca Licitra

On Self-Loathing and Kink in Jackie Ess’s Darryl

By Sage Agee

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

March 9, 2026

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of March 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: February 2026

By CrimeReads

Book Marks

Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub

James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

By Fiction Non Fiction

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

By Maris Kreizman

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir is the Ultimate Act of Defiance

By Noëlle de Leeuw

Growing Up Alawite in Assad’s Syria

By Loubna Mrie

How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America

By Matthew Avery Sutton

What to Check Out in Literary Baltimore While You’re in Town For AWP

By Gaby Iori

The Absurdity of Authoritarianism: A Conversation With Svetlana Satchkova

By Virginia Marshall