• Literary Criticism

    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell’s Troubles

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 10, 2025
    Rereadings

    Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

    By Rachel Kushner  September 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  September 9, 2025
    Craft

    The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

    By Alejandro Varela  September 9, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Taking Center Stage: Eight Novels That Celebrate Black Performance

    By Lauren Morrow  September 9, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Elizabeth Gilbert! Mick Herron! Sarah Moss! 24 new books out today.

    By Julia Hass  September 9, 2025
    Fall Books

    15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2025
    Reading Lists

    “Never Had a Dirty Book Done So Badly.” On Some Unlikely Books First Published with Viking

    By Paul Slovak  September 8, 2025
    Suicide

    Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

    By Sarah Adler  September 8, 2025
    Magical Thinking

    Breadcrumbs: Searching for Synchronicity, in Life and Literature

    By Tara Yazdan Panah  September 8, 2025
    Tennis

    Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

    By Thomas Swick  September 5, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 5, 2025
    Autofiction

    Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

    By Brian Robert Moore  September 5, 2025
    On Writing

    On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

    By Leila Chatti  September 5, 2025
    Jane Austen

    The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

    By Devoney Looser  September 4, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 4, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 4, 2025
    collaboration

    Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

    By Literary Hub  September 4, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 4, 2025
    On Translation

    A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

    By Ginny Tapley Takemori  September 4, 2025
    Reading Lists

    On the Literature of Ambitious Women

    By Eliana Ramage  September 4, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of Buckeye

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 4, 2025
    Virgil

    Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

    By Emily Wilson  September 3, 2025
    Poetry

    “Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni

    By Nikki Giovanni  September 3, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Arundhati Roy! Helen Garner! Joan Silber! 20 new books out today.

    By Julia Hass  September 2, 2025
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