Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in May

By Literary Hub | May 31, 2019

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Were Libraries Borges's Universe or the Other Way Around?

Rodrigo Fresan and Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Reading Jorge Luis Borges

By Literary Hub | May 31, 2019

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

Alyson Hagy on Rough Magic, Unruly Women, and the Beauty of Horses

By Alyson Hagy | May 30, 2019

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

Amanda Stern Wrote About Childhood Anxiety So Other Kids Won't Have To

By Amanda Stern | May 30, 2019

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

Lynn Steger Strong on New Books By Jamil Zaki and Christian Kiefer

By Lynn Steger Strong | May 30, 2019

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

Understanding the Poet as a Journalist, in 2019

By Philip Eil | May 29, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

By Dean Kuipers | May 28, 2019

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Raksha Vasudevan on Coming Face-to-Face With the Myths that Make America

By Raksha Vasudevan | May 28, 2019

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Hamilton Cain Considers David Epstein's Range

By Hamilton Cain | May 28, 2019

Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller

"You have to get the reader to turn over the page."

By Emily Temple | May 28, 2019

Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of <em>On a Sunbeam</em>

Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam

The Moody, Women-Centered Graphic Novel Space Opera
We Need Right Now

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 28, 2019

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Meg Donohue on the Enduring Appeal of Updating Old Stories

By Meg Donohue | May 28, 2019

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

"Nothing was impossible for a writer like him."

By Billy Kahora | May 24, 2019

Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us

Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us

The Endless Difficulty of Marrying Form and Content

By Kim Adrian | May 24, 2019

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