Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

Words to “Remind Us of the Love We Share During the Rough Times to Come.”

111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

For Your Pride (and Year-Long) Reading Pleasure

If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money

Naomi Kanakia on the Class Contradictions at the Heart of Publishing

How Long Can the Heart Go On Breaking? Three Poems of Gun Violence in America

Poetry by Alissa Quart and Rodrigo Toscano

The Creative Rebellion of Black Liberated Life: A Reading List for Juneteenth

Kris Manjapra on Ross Gay, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and More

The Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List

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Gothics, Whodunnits, Psychologicals, Historicals, and More: 19 Young Adult Reads for the Summer

All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?

Daegan Miller on The World As We Knew It and New Kinds of Nature Writing

Our 15 Favorite Summery Novels for Summer Reading

This Year and Every Year, As Recommended by Lit Hub Staff

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

Part Three of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

9 Short Story Collections You Need to Read This Summer

Part Two of Lit Hub’s Summer Preview

35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

Part One of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in June

Featuring George Saunders, a Queer Pride and Prejudice, and More

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution

Frances Ha is All Grown Up

Olivia Rutigliano on the Greta Gerwig Coming-of-Age Comedy Ten Years Later

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

Marco Belpoliti on Collective Memory and Publishing in Post-War Italy

Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

Dear American Gun Owner:
When is Enough?

Brenda Hillman on the Work of Keeping Rage and Sorrow Alive

On the Ball: In Memory of Roger Angell, 1920-2022

Michael Lindgren on One of the All-Time Greats

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

Eden Collinsworth on the Intellectual and Artistic Development of One of History’s Greatest Geniuses

The Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka

“As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.”

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

Annie Finch, Editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, in Conversation with Some Contributors

A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

From True Crime to Giant Snakes, Something for Everyone

What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality

“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

Corrupt Russian Oligarchs Trying to Destroy You? Better Call John Moscow

Bill Browder on What Happens When You Name and Shame the Bad Guys

Hope for Planet Earth: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change

Because the Case for Hope—and the Need for Change—Has Never Been More Urgent

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope

How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

Kathryn Harkup on the Many Ways To Live and Die on the Elizabethan Stage

Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

“Being a human is extraordinary.”

Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

“Defend yourself to your last breath—and whatever you do / don’t let them near you.”

Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

Barbara Shulgasser-Parker Illuminates the Perverse Side to the Famed Writer

Douglas Stuart on the Defiant Spirit of Glasgow’s Doocots, Private Pigeon Lofts on Public Land

Seeking Unclaimed Space on the Edges of the City's Council Housing

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in April

It's a Gritty Month on the Small Screen

“In Moderation and Without Worry.” On Jane Austen’s Use of Food As Character

Robert Tuesday Anderson Recommends a Little “Chawton Cottage Plum Pudding” While You Read

For Megan Mayhew Bergman, When It Comes to Showing Love, It’s All About Southern Cooking

The Author of How Strange a Season Shares Her Great-Grandmother’s Cake Recipe

“War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.” New Work by Ukrainian Poet Halyna Kruk

Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

Sofi Oksanen Recommends Books With an Eastern European Perspective

How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

Kate Tsurkan Reports from Chernivtsi

“You’ve got to live somewhere you aren’t afraid to die.” Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry From Kharkiv

Read Four Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, Newly Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

“When? Where? How?” Margaret Atwood Considers the Burning Questions of the Writing Life

“Failed again to find recipe box. Used this as an excuse for not working on overdue bird piece.”

Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

“How can one speak about, write about, war?”

Ulysses Turns 100!

Celebrating a Modernist Classic

The Order of Things: Jennifer Croft on Translating Olga Tokarczuk

What It Took to Render The Books of Jacob Into English

20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

"The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so."