The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Summer (Re-)Reads

The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Summer (Re-)Reads

Or, the Books at the Bottoms of our Beach Bags

By Emily Temple | June 22, 2021

Brandon Taylor: Writer’s Block Is Not Tragic (It’s a Part of Life)

Brandon Taylor: Writer’s Block Is Not Tragic (It’s a Part of Life)

The Author of Filthy Animals Answers the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 22, 2021

How Language Limits Our Ability to Describe Smells

How Language Limits Our Ability to Describe Smells

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | June 22, 2021

How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

Keenan Norris Recommends Paul Beatty, Fran Ross,
Mat Johnson, and More

By Keenan Norris | June 22, 2021

Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s <em>Dhalgren</em>

Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

Joss Lake Considers the Profound and Best-Selling
Science Fiction Novel

By Joss Lake | June 22, 2021

Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

Claire Heywood on Rewriting Mythology From the Woman’s Perspective

By Claire Heywood | June 22, 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

20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where).

By Katie Yee | June 22, 2021

The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

By History of Literature | June 21, 2021

Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

By Big Table | June 21, 2021

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

Lives Lived on the Opposite Sides of the American Dream

By Jonny Diamond | June 18, 2021

Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | June 18, 2021

On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

Brandon P. Fleming Recalls the Life-Changing Lessons of Undergrad

By Brandon P. Fleming | June 18, 2021

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

Shya Scanlon on Oyler, Lockwood, Wilder, Boyle, and More

By Shya Scanlon | June 17, 2021

Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

Veronica Esposito on Michelle Orange’s Pure Flame

By Veronica Esposito | June 17, 2021

<em>White Fungus</em> Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | June 17, 2021

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Ellen Barkin Narrates Yours, for Probably Always

By Janet Somerville | June 16, 2021

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