38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

The Lit Hub Staff Has Spoken

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2021

Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

From the Upcoming Anthology, Living Nations, Living Words

By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez | May 25, 2021

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

Kathleen Rooney Guests on the Lit Century Podcast with Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert

By Lit Century | May 25, 2021

18 new books to read on the beach this week.

18 new books to read on the beach this week.

By Katie Yee | May 25, 2021

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

Gabby Bellot Considers “The Comet” and the Pervasive Legacy
of the Color Line

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 24, 2021

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

Chris Drangle Takes an Objective Look at an Excruciatingly Subjective Endeavor

By Chris Drangle | May 24, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

By Arielle Zibrak | May 24, 2021

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

By Linda Rui Feng | May 24, 2021

Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

By Sharmila Cohen | May 21, 2021

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

From How to Cook Husbands to Frog Raising for Pleasure and Profit

By Edward Brooke-Hitching | May 21, 2021

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

Rafe Posey on Breaking Open the Kernel of an Idea

By Rafe Posey | May 21, 2021

What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

Sci-Fi Author Adrian Tchaikovsky Talks to Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | May 21, 2021

Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

Samantha Silva Gets Some Writing Help from an Unconventional Source

By Samantha Silva | May 20, 2021

How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

Phoebe Wynne on Remaking the Classics

By Phoebe Wynne | May 20, 2021

Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 20, 2021

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 19, 2021

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