Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick's Ode to Bartleby

Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick's Ode to Bartleby

An "Incurious Ghost" Who Would Really Prefer Not To

By Elizabeth Hardwick | October 13, 2017

The New Scream Queens

The New Scream Queens

Four Story Collections at the Intersection of Feminism and Horror

By Nathan Scott McNamara | October 13, 2017

The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen's Novels of Love

The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen's Novels of Love

The Call is Coming From Inside the Country Estate

By Mikaella Clements | October 13, 2017

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

"The Internet Offers a Secret Life to Everybody"

By Andrew O'Hagan | October 12, 2017

Jane Austen's <em>Emma</em> Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

Jane Austen's Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

On the Early Reception of a Classic Novel, on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Juliette Wells | October 11, 2017

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

Why Have They Been Mythologized as Solitary Eccentrics or Isolated Geniuses?

By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney | October 11, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

By Ottessa Moshfegh | October 10, 2017

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

By John Biguenet | October 5, 2017

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

By Sarah LaBrie | October 5, 2017

How Death Became Big Business in America

How Death Became Big Business in America

And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals

By Caitlin Doughty | October 4, 2017

A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the <em>Letters</em> Cover Controversy

A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

What Do We Look For in a Literary Icon?

By Nichole LeFebvre | October 3, 2017

The Prettiest Way to Die

The Prettiest Way to Die

Consumption Chic and the 19th-Century Cult of the Invalid

By Christina Newland | October 3, 2017

Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul

Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul

"Shit, Grit, and Mother Wit”

By Alejandro Nava | October 3, 2017

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

"Determining Whose Life is Grievable is an Act of Framing"

By Hayley Singer | October 2, 2017

Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes

Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes

On Roleplaying as Research

By Alison Moore | September 29, 2017

My Own Personal Herakles

My Own Personal Herakles

On Love, Loss, and the Fire at the Center of the Earth

By Renée Branum | September 29, 2017

« First‹ Previous318319320321322323324325326Next ›Last »
Page 322 of 347
    • The Best Books of 2025: Crime Fiction, Mysteries, and ThrillersDecember 4, 2025 by CrimeReads
    • Why Washington DC is the Perfect City to Set a Psychological ThrillerDecember 4, 2025 by Christina Kovac
    • Why So Many Former Intelligence Officers Write Espionage FictionDecember 4, 2025 by Charles Beaumont
    • The Pelican Child: Stories
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member