• Literary Criticism

    On Poetry

    Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

    By Diana Khoi Nguyen  September 19, 2024
    Literary Theory

    Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

    By Ron Rosenbaum  September 19, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

    By History of Literature  September 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 19, 2024
    Class

    Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

    By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart  September 18, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

    By Lisa Yaszek  September 18, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  September 18, 2024
    Reading Lists

    The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 17, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rumaan Alam! Gay Shakespeare! How Elon Musk killed Twitter! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 17, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

    By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 13, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 13, 2024
    Characters

    Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

    By Anna Johnston  September 13, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 12, 2024
    Myanmar

    Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

    By Elizabeth Shick  September 12, 2024
    Writers and Money

    Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

    By Aimie K. Runyan  September 11, 2024
    On Poetry

    Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

    By Peter Mishler  September 11, 2024
    Reading Lists

    17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 10, 2024
    Reissues

    Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

    By Rachel Khong  September 10, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 10, 2024
    Gun violence

    Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

    By Alex Trimble Young  September 9, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

    By Cat Marnell  September 9, 2024
    Deafness

    Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign

    By Sara Nović  September 9, 2024
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