The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD

Cornelia Powers Grapples with the Pressures of Gamified Reading

By Cornelia Powers | October 2, 2024

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Ten World-Spanning New Children’s Books Out in October

Caroline Carlson Recommends Some Fall Titles, No Matter Where You Live

By Caroline Carlson | October 2, 2024

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More

By Aaron Robertson | October 2, 2024

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Demons, Bog Wives, and Seven-Eyed Dragons: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Autumnal Speculative Reads from Susanna Clarke, Jeff VanderMeer, Nghi Vo, and More

By Natalie Zutter | October 2, 2024

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

Bedtime Tales, Upheavals, and Ecopoetry: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This October

David Woo Recommends Collections by Jennifer Chang, Janice N. Harrington, Matthew Hollis, and More

By David Woo | October 2, 2024

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

So, you want to read some horror? Here's a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

By Drew Broussard | October 1, 2024

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Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

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Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

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

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

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

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 1, 2024

Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | October 1, 2024

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

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

“Did you always cry, did you always burn?”

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2024 Insider Prize

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

Selected by Peter Orner

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

Dr. Alan Townsend on Emotion and Science

Dr. Alan Townsend on Emotion and Science

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 30, 2024

Anne Lamott on How to Be Compulsively Readable

Anne Lamott on How to Be Compulsively Readable

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 30, 2024

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

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

Calvin Kasulke Talks to Librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds and More

By The Lit Hub Podcast | September 27, 2024

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