• Literary Criticism

    In Conversation

    Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

    The Author of “The Dry Season” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

     
    By Sarah Viren  June 4, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 4, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 3, 2025
    In Conversation

    Susan Choi on Writing a Cross-Cultural Story of Mystery and Tragedy

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 3, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Four Great Sports Books That Go Way Beyond the Game

    By S. L. Price  June 3, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Melissa Febos! Mike Tyson! Taylor Jenkins Reid! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Bugs

    In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl  June 2, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Ten New Children’s Books That Promise Page-Turning Adventures

    By Caroline Carlson  June 2, 2025
    New Poetry

    Love Comes Back Like a Murderer: Seven Poetry Books to Read This June

    By Christopher Spaide  June 2, 2025
    On Reading

    What Do Americans Really Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

    Tom Comitta Explores the Country’s Literary Imagination As Revealed Through Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

    By Tom Comitta  June 4, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 29, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

    Darrow Farr on Patty Hearst, Exploitation, and Writing Other People's Traumas

    By Darrow Farr  May 29, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 29, 2025
    Wine

    Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

    By Rochelle Dowden-Lord  May 28, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 27, 2025
    In Conversation

    Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

    By Literary Hub  May 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

    By Arvind Ethan David  May 23, 2025
    Narrative

    What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

    By T.J. Martinson  May 23, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    Martha Park Recommends Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and More

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

    By Elizabeth Costello  May 23, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 23, 2025
    Lit Hub Radio

    Laura Rossi and Jo Reed on Recent Earphones Award Winners

    By Behind the Mic   May 30, 2025
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