Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
  • Reading Challenge
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Reading Challenge
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em>

The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

"If I had written this book, I would have gone into hiding too"

By Emily Temple | July 16, 2018

Watching <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> While Transitioning

Watching The Handmaid's Tale While Transitioning

Veronica Esposito on Encountering Misogyny in a New Way

By Veronica Esposito | July 16, 2018

Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

Diana Gabaldon on a Neglected Classic by John Rollin Ridge

By Diana Gabaldon | July 16, 2018

Heid E. Erdrich, Poet, Curator, Editor, Is Having a Busy Year

Heid E. Erdrich, Poet, Curator, Editor, Is Having a Busy Year

The Editor of New Poets in Native Nations in Conversation with Sheila Regan

By Sheila Regan | July 16, 2018

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?

Andromeda Romano-Lax on the Real Stakes of Speculative Fiction

By Andromeda Romano-Lax | July 13, 2018

How to Copy Your Favorite Authors' Best Beach Looks

How to Copy Your Favorite Authors' Best Beach Looks

20 Famous Writers Swimming, Surfing, and Strolling by the Sea

By Emily Temple | July 13, 2018

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Villa Coco
  • Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me
  • Contrapposto
  • Earth 7
  • The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

Believing in the Animorphs Taught Me I Could Cope with Anything

By Jean Guerrero | July 12, 2018

Big Waves, Short Stories, and Everything in Between

By Literary Hub | July 12, 2018

On Writing a Short Story: 'Everything is Always Happening, All the Time.'

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2018

Combating the System (and Writerly Loneliness) with a Collective

Combating the System (and Writerly Loneliness) with a Collective

At Kristiania's Monthly Salons, Where Politics and Literature Mix

By Ben Clague | July 11, 2018

Ottessa Moshfegh: I Worry I Say Too Much In Interviews

Ottessa Moshfegh: I Worry I Say Too Much In Interviews

On the Genius of Whoopi Goldberg, the Nihilism of Nirvana and More

By Ottessa Moshfegh | July 10, 2018

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

"These Additions, My Agent Noted, Were Not Very Good"

By Andrew Martin | July 10, 2018

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Jordy Rosenberg, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and More Take
the Lit Hub Author Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne | July 10, 2018

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

"Why is it so hard to know a person we see everyday?"

By Samantha Hunt | July 10, 2018

Not Everyone Loves Proust

Not Everyone Loves Proust

Crushingly dull. Rather infantile. A mental defective?

By Emily Temple | July 10, 2018

I Worked in Biology for 17 Years... Then I Became a Writer

I Worked in Biology for 17 Years... Then I Became a Writer

From Studying Silkmoth Eggs to Studying Fiction

By Grace Dane Mazur | July 6, 2018

« First‹ Previous718719720721722723724725726Next ›Last »
Page 722 of 850
    • Millicent Simmonds Co-Writes and Stars in New Thriller, Grace With a Deaf ProtagonistJune 17, 2026 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026June 17, 2026 by CrimeReads
    • 6 Suspense Novels About Art, Museums, and ForgersJune 17, 2026 by Carol Snow
    • Villa Coco
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "None of this is particularly suspenseful the novel s chief revelation is telegraphed about halfway…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

  • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.