• Literary Criticism

    Gift Guide

    50 Gift Books for Everyone on Your List

    By Katie Yee  December 15, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2022

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

    By Dorothea   December 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 15, 2022
    Literary History

    How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

    By Nino Strachey  December 15, 2022
    Lit Hub Radio

    Qian Julie Wang: How Does It Feel When Obama Selects Your Book As One of His Favorites of the Year?

    By Twitterverse   December 15, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Books of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2022
    Cookbooks

    The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2022 for Everyone on Your Holiday List

    By Literary Hub  December 15, 2022
    ust the Right Book

    The 2022 Just the Right Book Holiday Gift Guide!

    By Just the Right Book   December 15, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

    By Bill Cotter  December 15, 2022
    Book Dreams

    What Is the Science Behind Heartbreak?

    By Book Dreams  December 15, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Simon Jacobs is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 15, 2022
    Authors in the Tent

    Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 15, 2022
    2022

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2022

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2022
    Christmas

    The Wild, Wonderful, and Poetic World of Ralphie Parker

    By Matt Mitchell  December 14, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2022
    Otherppl

    “I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer…” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 14, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Finding Glimmers of Queerness Under the Sea: A Reading List

    By Sabrina Imbler  December 14, 2022
    The Hub

    5 new books to find at your local bookstore.

    By Katie Yee  December 13, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Best Reviewed Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books
    of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 13, 2022
    Travel

    Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

    By Paul Clements  December 13, 2022
    Pregnancy

    The Optimistic, Expansive Visions of Pregnancy and Motherhood in the 1962 Novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman

    By Jenni Quilter  December 13, 2022
    Hong Kong

    An Indelible City, Indelibly Marked: On Hong Kong’s History of Resistance

    By Jerrine Tan  December 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 13, 2022
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