Chasing Mystery Through Fiction: <br>On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

Garth Risk Hallberg Remembers a Master of the Short Form

By Garth Risk Hallberg | January 20, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

Featuring Julie Phillips, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 17, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Aria Aber, Y2K, Pico Iyer, and More

By Book Marks | January 17, 2025

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

“Remember that every bit of worldbuilding that makes it to the page adds to the set, and stage space is limited.”

By Erika Swyler | January 17, 2025

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

By James H. Sweet | January 17, 2025

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What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

By Ariel Dorfman | January 16, 2025

How to Talk About Your Own Book

By Maris Kreizman | January 16, 2025

We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

By Luis Schwarcz | January 16, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

By Book Marks | January 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 16, 2025

Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 16, 2025

The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

Criticism by Jane Zwart, From the Latest Issue of “Image” Magazine

By Jane Zwart | January 15, 2025

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

By Carolyn Kellogg | January 15, 2025

My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

Layne Fargo Explores the Power of Celebrating Others' Literary Success (and Why Their Success Is Also Yours)

By Layne Fargo | January 15, 2025

The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

Bradford Morrow Investigates a World of Deception, Duplicitousness, and a Great Deal of Skill

By Bradford Morrow | January 14, 2025

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