• Literary Criticism

    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

     
    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 25, 2024
    On Grief

    Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

    By Ariana Reines  October 25, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 24, 2024
    Storytelling

    Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

    By Robin Waterfield  October 24, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Year

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

    By Book Marks  October 24, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 24, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Vietnam

    “America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

    By Nguyễn Bình  October 23, 2024
    In Memoriam

    Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

    By Vanessa Braganza  October 23, 2024
    On Poetry

    Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

    By Molly McCully Brown  October 23, 2024
    The Sea

    Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

    Eiren Caffall Recommends Herman Melville, Sebastian Junger, Diana Preston, and More

    By Eiren Caffall  October 25, 2024
    In Conversation

    Joshua Mohr on Writing a Genre-Blending Post-Modern Punk Rock Saga

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 22, 2024
    Food Writing

    The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

    By Aditi Machado  October 21, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  October 18, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    A Spooky Season Spectacular

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 18, 2024
    Architecture

    Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

    By Emily J. Orlando  October 18, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

    By Literary Hub  October 18, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 17, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  October 17, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

    By Bruna Dantas Lobato  October 17, 2024
    Medieval History

    What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

    By Helen Castor  October 17, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next

    Featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mahmoud Darwish, and Others

    By Diana Arterian  October 16, 2024
    Desire

    The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

    By Kate Hamilton  October 16, 2024
    craft advice

    No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

    By John Larison  October 16, 2024
    Disability

    The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

    By Liz Jackson  October 22, 2024
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