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Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

David Berry on the Long Tradition of Artists as Critics, From Xie He to Charles Baudelaire

By David Berry | December 22, 2025

A Timeless Portrait of Black Life: James Baldwin on Louise Meriwether’s <em>Daddy Was a Number Runner</em>

A Timeless Portrait of Black Life: James Baldwin on Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner

“She has told everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country.”

By James Baldwin | December 22, 2025

Why Clearing Stormfall <br>With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Why Clearing Stormfall
With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Claire Thompson Considers the Unlikely Physicality
of Writing (on a Good Day)

By Claire Thompson | December 22, 2025

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

The books that took home home this year’s biggest literary prizes

By Book Marks | December 19, 2025

From Hitchhiking the Sahara (and Storing Hash in the Garage) to Co-Founding MTV and Running Viacom

From Hitchhiking the Sahara (and Storing Hash in the Garage) to Co-Founding MTV and Running Viacom

Terry McDonell Talks to Tom Freston, Author of Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu

By Terry McDonell | December 19, 2025

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Or: The Poetry of a Boarding House

By Sara Martin | December 19, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Beyond Memoir: A Roundtable on Health, Identity, and the Invisible Injury We Aren’t Talking About

By Molly Gaudry, Carmen Giménez, D/Annie Liontas | December 19, 2025

Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on The Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 19, 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

By Adam Morgan | December 18, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | December 18, 2025

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My <em>Harry Potter</em> Fandom as a Trans Person

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia

By Sandy Ernest Allen | December 18, 2025

On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe

On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe

A Conversation with Artem Chapeye, Peter Osnos, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones

By Literary Hub | December 18, 2025

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 18, 2025

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

By Gerri Kimber | December 17, 2025

How <em>Ulysses</em> Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

How Ulysses Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson and the Early Fight Against Literary Censorship in America

By Adam Morgan | December 17, 2025

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Poet, Novelist, Equestrian, Community Builder, Philanthropist

By Imani Perry, Raina León, Garlia Cornelia Jones | December 17, 2025

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