• In Conversation

    The Critic and Her Publics

    First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

    a week-long season on translation begins

     
    By The Critic and Her Publics   August 25, 2025
    Poetry

    Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Lit Hub Podcast Slows Down With Some Nice Things

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 22, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 21, 2025
    In Conversation

    River Selby on Wildland Firefighting, Processing Trauma, and Writing For Your Younger Self

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 19, 2025
    The Hub

    “Do it often, do it badly if you must, just keep doing it.” Yael van der Wouden on the writer’s life.

    By Literary Hub  August 18, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Publishers Marketplace 101, Maris Kreizman Burns It Down, and More

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 15, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 14, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 13, 2025
    In Conversation

    Through the Lens of Love: Nicholas Boggs on His New Biography of James Baldwin

    Danté Stewart in Conversation With the Author of “James Baldwin: A Love Story”

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 12, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Brad Lander Talks Sonnets; What Happens When a Small Press Wins the Booker

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 8, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 7, 2025
    Awakeners

    Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

    In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

    By Awakeners   August 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Ed Park on Trusting the Generative Mind

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 4, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Talking Lapham’s Quarterly and Socialist Gothics on The Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 1, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 31, 2025
    In Conversation

    Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page

    The Author of “Dream State” in Conversation with Jessie Gaynor

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 31, 2025
    In Conversation

    Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

    By Eric Olson  July 30, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 30, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
    Motherhood

    Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

    Rachel Deutsch Talks to Teresa Wong, Becky Barnicoat and Mary Catherine Starr

    By Rachel Deutsch  July 29, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith, and American Authoritarians

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 24, 2025
    In Conversation

    Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 12, 2025
    Page 1 of 169

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.