Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

Three Collections Are in the Running for $20,000

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2019

How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

Writing Literary Classics and Advising American Toymakers

By Emily Temple | January 7, 2019

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

According to Book Cover Designers

By Emily Temple | December 29, 2018

The Ultimate Best Books of 2018 List

The Ultimate Best Books of 2018 List

AKA the Nerdiest Popularity Contest of All Time

By Emily Temple | December 29, 2018

Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

What We're Looking Forward to, the First Half and Then Some

By Emily Temple | December 28, 2018

Notable Literary Deaths in 2018

Notable Literary Deaths in 2018

A Last Goodbye to the Authors, Editors, and Book People We Lost This Year

By Emily Temple | December 21, 2018

Best Reviewed
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  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

15 Perfect Gifts for 15 Famous Writers

By Emily Temple | December 19, 2018

Your 2019 Literary Adaptation Preview

By Emily Temple | December 17, 2018

Here Are 21 Books to Give to Everyone You Know This Holiday Season

By Emily Temple | December 13, 2018

Who Wore It Best? US Book Covers vs. UK Book Covers for 2018

Who Wore It Best? US Book Covers vs. UK Book Covers for 2018

Shots Fired on Both Sides of the Pond

By Emily Temple | December 7, 2018

Here are the Biggest Nonfiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

Here are the Biggest Nonfiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

(And the Books We Remember Instead)

By Emily Temple | December 5, 2018

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

And Also Some Very Scientific Research

By Emily Temple | December 5, 2018

A Close-Reading of <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> as Coming of Age Story

A Close-Reading of The Talented Mr. Ripley as Coming of Age Story

Dickie Greenleaf! Is It Really You?

By Emily Temple | November 30, 2018

10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

"Like the ghostwriter, the translator must slip on a second skin."

By Emily Temple | November 28, 2018

Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

(And What Everyone Read Instead)

By Emily Temple | November 27, 2018

The 15 Best Book Covers of November

The 15 Best Book Covers of November

In Which We Happily Judge Covers By Their Covers

By Emily Temple | November 26, 2018

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