2023

For Your Listening Pleasure: The Best Audiobooks of September

The Month's Top in Literary Listening

September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Zadie Smith, Anne Enright, Lauren Groff, and More

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lit Hub Daily: September 28, 2023

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

"When we craft stories, we don’t necessarily write ourselves; sometimes we write the characters and stories we need to see."

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

From Alison Bashford's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

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

How Oppenheimer Fails to Unpack the Craft at the Core of Its Drama

“When it comes to STEM in film, there can be drama in the minutiae.”

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Offering a mouthful of nectar that tastes faintly of blood."

Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books