• Literary Criticism

    Fathers

    The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  June 13, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 13, 2024
    In Conversation

    Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

    By Literary Hub  June 13, 2024
    In Conversation

    Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skin

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  June 13, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 13, 2024
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2024 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 12, 2024
    Jane Austen

    Was Jane Austen Actually the Ultimate Anti-Romantic Novelist?

    By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey  June 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Autopsies, Necrophiliacs, and Werewolf Pandemics: Puloma Ghosh on Translating Grief into Literary Horror

    By Melissa Lozada-Oliva  June 12, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Deirdre Madden on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 12, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Bill Eville on Fatherhood

    By History of Literature  June 12, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 11, 2024
    Colonialism

    What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

    By Corinne Fowler  June 11, 2024
    On Poetry

    Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

    By D.S. Waldman  June 11, 2024
    In Conversation

    Robin Sloan on Creating an Expansive and Immersive Sci-Fi Universe

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 11, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  June 11, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 11, 2024
    Romance

    Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction

    By Elaina Ellis  June 10, 2024
    Cranks

    In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

    By Ed Simon  June 10, 2024
    In Conversation

    Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

    By Samantha Paige Rosen  June 7, 2024
    In Conversation

    John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

    By James Hibbard  June 7, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  June 7, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 6, 2024
    Publishing

    It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

    By Maris Kreizman  June 6, 2024
    Pornography

    My Friend, the Legendary Porn Queen

    By Catherine Gigante-Brown  June 6, 2024
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