• Literary Criticism

    2025 Preview

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

    By Literary Hub  January 7, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

    By Elizabeth Harris  January 7, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 7, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    Paperbacks

    Deer! Dystopia! Patrick Stewart! MLK’s definitive bio! 21 books out in paperback this January.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 3, 2025
    Publishing

    Fighting for Book Workers’ Rights, Battling Book Bans, and Other Literary Resolutions For 2025

    By Maris Kreizman  January 2, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2025

    By Natalie Zutter  January 2, 2025
    Poetry

    A Constant Reinvention of Language: Looking Ahead to 2025 in Poetry

    By Literary Hub  January 2, 2025
    Children's Literature

    The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2025

    By Caroline Carlson  January 2, 2025
    Best of 2024

    The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024

    By Emily Temple  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024

    By Brittany Cavallaro  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 167 Best Book Covers of 2024

    By Emily Temple  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Linguistics

    New Media, Old Anxieties:
    Why is “Brain Rot” the Word of the Year?

    By Josh Abbey  December 20, 2024
    On Poetry

    The Thick Muddy Soil of Language: On Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise

    By Abdelrahman ElGendy  December 20, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    “We Need to Be Rigorous in Defending Our Experiences of Art.” Chris Knapp Talks to Andrew Martin

    By Andrew Martin  December 20, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Rosa Alcalá Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 20, 2024
    Henry James

    On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love

    By Katherine J. Chen  December 19, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 19, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    My Favorite Book-to-TV Adaptations of 2024

    By Maris Kreizman  December 19, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Loathe Very Online Writers: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  December 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 19, 2024
    Poetry

    “What Zarqaʾ al-Yamama Didn’t Say,” a Poem by Mohamed Abdelbari

    By Mohammad Abdelbari and Huda Fakhreddine  December 18, 2024
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