• Literary Criticism

    Folklore

    Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

    By Ben Edge  October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

    By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 8, 2024
    Income Inequality

    “Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

    By Douglas Unger  October 7, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

    By Jamie Quatro  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    French literature

    All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

    By Deborah Levy  October 7, 2024
    Mythology

    Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

    By Douglas J. Penick  October 7, 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 4, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

    By AudioFile Magazine  October 4, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    What’s With All The Romance Bookstores? This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 4, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 3, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  October 3, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 3, 2024
    On Lists

    The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

    By Cornelia Powers  October 2, 2024
    Children's Literature

    Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

    By Caroline Carlson  October 2, 2024
    Reading Lists

    A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

    By Aaron Robertson  October 2, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  October 2, 2024
    Poetry

    Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

    By David Woo  October 2, 2024
    Horror

    So, you want to read some horror? Here’s a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

    By Drew Broussard  October 1, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 1, 2024
    Russian Literature

    Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

    By Forrest Gander  October 1, 2024
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