• Craft and Criticism

    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
    In Conversation

    Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

    By Joy Castro  October 1, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 1, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

    By I'm a Writer But   October 1, 2024
    In Memoriam

    Remembering the Life and Work of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Translator and Activist

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2024
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2024
    First Draft

    Dr. Alan Townsend on Emotion and Science

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 30, 2024
    Write-minded

    Anne Lamott on How to Be Compulsively Readable

    By Write-minded   September 30, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Banned Books and Rooneymania: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 27, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 27, 2024
    Moral Panics

    Life Imitates Art: On The Sorrows of Young Werther, Moral Panic and the Power of Books

    By Ed Simon  September 27, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 27, 2024
    craft advice

    What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

    By Jamie Harrow  September 27, 2024
    In Conversation

    The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

    By Peter Mishler  September 27, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    M.L. Rio on the Connection Between Writing and Dreams

    By M.L. Rio  September 27, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Garth Greenwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 27, 2024
    craft advice

    What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Dungeons & Dragons

    By Jedediah Berry  September 26, 2024
    Publishing

    On the Anxiety of Finally Publishing a Book After Years of Covering Them

    By Maris Kreizman  September 26, 2024
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