29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

Part Three of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2022

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

Philip Schultz Discusses the Creative Power Behind Anger and Shame

By Philip Schultz | June 8, 2022

No Tense Like the Present: Novels That Embrace the Immediate

No Tense Like the Present: Novels That Embrace the Immediate

Anna Dorn Advocates for Bringing the Reader Along on the Journey

By Anna Dorn | June 8, 2022

Why I Make Rules for My Writing Students—And Why I Break Them

Why I Make Rules for My Writing Students—And Why I Break Them

Adam White on Teaching Writing (and Jack Nicklaus)

By Adam White | June 8, 2022

Claire Denis’s <em>Stars at Noon</em> is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material

From Cannes, Ryan Coleman Considers the French Filmmaker's Adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Novel

By Ryan Coleman | June 8, 2022

Elissa Washuta on Reckoning with the Insoluble Puzzles of the Universe

Elissa Washuta on Reckoning with the Insoluble Puzzles of the Universe

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 8, 2022

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Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

Note to Elon Musk: Stop Wasting Your Billions on Twitter and Invest Them in Curing Cancer

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood on “Literary Destiny” and the Topics of Our Obsession

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | June 8, 2022

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Jefferson Morley in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

Not Your Stock Grandma: On a Refreshing (and Relatable) Character in <em>Dicey’s Song</em>

Not Your Stock Grandma: On a Refreshing (and Relatable) Character in Dicey’s Song

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | June 8, 2022

Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Dana Suskind in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

9 Short Story Collections You Need to Read This Summer

9 Short Story Collections You Need to Read This Summer

Part Two of Lit Hub’s Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 7, 2022

Take a break and check out these 21 new books.

Take a break and check out these 21 new books.

By Katie Yee | June 7, 2022

Why All Fiction is Climate Fiction Now

Why All Fiction is Climate Fiction Now

Nishant Batsha on When Art Intersects with Unavoidable Reality

By Nishant Batsha | June 7, 2022

Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

And He Has Some Bad News About Frances

By Keith Gessen | June 7, 2022

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