• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviews of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 8, 2022
    Childhood

    Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide

    By Lesley Jenike  July 8, 2022
    Self-Help?

    Eight Books That’ll Help You Ask Braver Questions of Yourself

    By Jenna Kutcher  July 8, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Tomi Obaro on Taking Risks and Writing Nigeria in Her Debut Novel

    By The Maris Review  July 7, 2022
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  July 7, 2022
    Baseball

    Ron Shelton on Making Bull Durham, Getting Threatened by Thomas Pynchon, and Why Baseball is the Most Literary Sport

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 7, 2022
    Identity

    Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood and Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing from the Vietnamese Diaspora

    By Literary Hub  July 7, 2022
    Fathers and Daughters

    Katherine Angel on Valerie Solanas, Bad Dads, and the Literary Pleasures of Pure Rage

    By Katherine Angel  July 7, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 7, 2022
    Southern literature

    “He Gives Us Back Our Wonder.” Tarell Alvin McCraney on the Work of Randall Kenan

    By Tarell Alvin McCraney  July 6, 2022
    Reading Lists

    8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
    to Jump-Start Your July

    By Book Marks  July 6, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Writing Advice from Rachel Yoder: Take a Break, Hug a Tree

    By Literary Hub  July 6, 2022
    Podcasts

    On the Most Ambitious Literary Podcast in the History of the World

    By Gabriel Pasquini  July 6, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Lincoln Michel on the Pulpy, Rollicking, Resonant Early Sci-Fi of John Wyndham

    By Lincoln Michel  July 6, 2022
    Egyptian Literature

    Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

    By Mohamed Shoair  July 6, 2022
    The Bible

    You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

    By Matt Rowland Hill  July 6, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Great Women Through the Ages: A Historical Fiction Reading List

    By Katherine J. Chen  July 6, 2022
    Literary Icons

    California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

    By Marianne Eloise  July 5, 2022
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of June

    By Book Marks  July 5, 2022
    The Hub

    You couldn’t write a sentence this bad IF YOU TRIED.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 1, 2022
    The Hub

    19 new paperbacks to tuck into your beach tote this July.

    By Katie Yee  July 1, 2022
    Rural America

    William Brewer is NOT Trying to Write the Great West Virginia Novel

    By Andy Kifer  July 1, 2022
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    By Book Marks  July 1, 2022
    Feminist Classics

    Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

    By Chris Cander  July 1, 2022
    Ukraine

    “The Sky is Innocent.” New Writing by Ukrainian Poet Ostap Slyvynsky

    By Literary Hub  June 30, 2022
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