Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness

Jack Parlett Considers the Experiences of Some of His Favorite Artists With Sobriety (Alongside His Own)

By Jack Parlett | July 13, 2026

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

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

Featuring Rachel Aviv, Daniel Mason, David Thompson, and More

By Book Marks | July 10, 2026

Remembering Tom Stoppard: <br>A Night at the Theater

Remembering Tom Stoppard:
A Night at the Theater

Morgan Entrekin on the Small Kindnesses of a Literary Giant

By Morgan Entrekin | July 9, 2026

How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection

How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection

Maris Kreizman on the Joy (and Pain) of Downsizing

By Maris Kreizman | July 9, 2026

If Rachel Aviv Weren’t a Writer, She’d Be a Psychologist

If Rachel Aviv Weren’t a Writer, She’d Be a Psychologist

The Author of You Won’t Get Free of It Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 9, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s nothing more than hagiography for a dumbass.”

By Book Marks | July 9, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | July 9, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

By Literary Hub | July 9, 2026

Peter Hessler on the Implications of a Chinese Education

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 9, 2026

How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created

How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created

Catherine Cliff on Austen‘s Third Model of Spinsterhood: Being a Self-Made Woman

By Catherine Cliff | July 8, 2026

Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today!

Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | July 7, 2026

What Does Joyce Carol Oates <em>Really</em> Think of Our Addiction to Social Media?

What Does Joyce Carol Oates Really Think of Our Addiction to Social Media?

Harry Stecopoulos on the Queen of Literary X and Her Latest Story Collection, The Frenzy

By Harry Stecopoulos | July 7, 2026

“Scary, Stunning and Sublime.” Kathleen Rooney Recommends Nine Great Books About Survival at Sea

“Scary, Stunning and Sublime.” Kathleen Rooney Recommends Nine Great Books About Survival at Sea

With Work by Herbert Clyde Lewis, Robert Hughes, Rachel Carson and More

By Kathleen Rooney | July 7, 2026

Is <em>Moby-Dick</em> the Greatest American Novel?

Is Moby-Dick the Greatest American Novel?

Michael Dirda on the Alluring Ambiguity of Melville’s Quintessentially American Masterpiece

By Michael Dirda | July 6, 2026

A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel

A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel

“One has to be willing to humiliate oneself in order to yodel, there is no spiritual bypass.”

By Valerie Hsiung | July 6, 2026

How Etel Adnan Shaped a Generation of Poets

How Etel Adnan Shaped a Generation of Poets

Joshua Thermidor on My Center Is Not in the Solar System: Tributes to Etel Adnan

By Joshua Thermidor | July 6, 2026

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