• Craft and Criticism

    Experimental Fiction

    Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

    Dan Leach Recommends Michael Bible, Maggie Nelson, Haruki Murakami, and More

     
    By Dan Leach  July 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

    By Clarence A. Haynes  July 3, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    Plot

    Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 3, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 3, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

    By James Folta  July 2, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Aging

    Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

    By Jessica Berger Gross  July 2, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

    By Danielle Dutton  July 2, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 2, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “It’s a total, self-encapsulating project—about a total, self-encapsulating doom.”

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    The Big List

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2025
    Publishing

    A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
    Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

    By Maris Kreizman  July 1, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

    By Benedict Nguyễn  July 1, 2025
    In Conversation

    Meg Waite Clayton on Fictionalizing Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

    Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Typewriter Beach”

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 1, 2025
    Awakeners

    Jemimah Wei and Tash Aw Tell Time and Place

    By Awakeners   July 1, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

    By Caroline Carlson  June 30, 2025
    Poetry

    Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  June 30, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Defracted Universes, Memory Divers, and Darkest Academia: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    Speculative Summer Reads From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mattie Lubchansky, Cassandra Khaw, and More

    By Natalie Zutter  June 30, 2025
    On Writing

    The Agonies and Ecstasies of a Slow Book Project

    By Stephanie Elizondo Griest  June 30, 2025
    Latin American Literature

    Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

    By Suzanne Jill Levine  June 30, 2025
    First Draft

    André Alexis on Discovering as He Goes

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 30, 2025
    Write-minded

    Molly Jong-Fast on Opening a Vein on the Page

    From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Memoir Nation   June 30, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Lit Hub Podcast is Pro-Trans-Presses, Pro-Fan-Fiction, and Anti-AI

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 27, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

    By Libby Buck  July 1, 2025
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