• Literary Criticism

    Experimental Fiction

    Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

    Dan Leach Recommends Michael Bible, Maggie Nelson, Haruki Murakami, and More

     
    By Dan Leach  July 3, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    Plot

    Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 3, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 3, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    Is Summer Actually the Season for Reading Big, Thick Books?

    By James Folta  July 2, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

    By Danielle Dutton  July 2, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 2, 2025
    The Big List

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Owls, Haunted Pianos, Having the Moon for a Neighbor: Ten Children’s Books to Read in July

    By Caroline Carlson  June 30, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “It’s a total, self-encapsulating project—about a total, self-encapsulating doom.”

    By Book Marks  July 3, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Defracted Universes, Memory Divers, and Darkest Academia: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  June 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2025
    Craft

    I’m Obsessed: On the Importance of Getting Lost in Your Writing

    The First in a Five-Part Series on the Craft of Writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  June 27, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of July

    By AudioFile Magazine  June 27, 2025
    Paperbacks

    Joan Didion and Eve Babitz! Rachel Kushner! 25 books out in paperback this July.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 27, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 26, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

    Keridiana Chez Explores the Role of Magic as Instant Gratification and Automation in the Potter-Verse

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
    Poetry

    For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

    By Cindy Juyoung Ok  June 26, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 26, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

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

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 26, 2025
    Thresholds

    Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

    By Thresholds   June 25, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Poetry

    Ghetto Koans, Pattern Books, Devouring Wolves: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in July

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  June 30, 2025
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