• Literary Criticism

    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
    Italian Literature

    “Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

    By Gina Frangello  June 6, 2024
    Motherhood

    Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

    By Claire Kilroy  June 6, 2024
    Rereadings

    Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth

    By Kyle Dillon Hertz  June 6, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Morgan Talty Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 6, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 6, 2024
    Mother-Writers

    “At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

    By Janet Manley  June 5, 2024
    Reissues

    Appreciating the Understated Complexity of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

    By Nick Hornby  June 5, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Ursula Buchan on John Buchan

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2024
    Ancestors

    Chasing Storms: Christiana Spens on The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

    By Christiana Spens  June 4, 2024
    In Conversation

    Morgan Talty on Writing a Native American Novel That Subverts Expectations

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 4, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid’s advice! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 4, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Space Smooches and Surreal Short Stories: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  June 3, 2024
    Poetry

    Holding Up Mirrors to the Self: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June

    By David Woo  June 3, 2024
    On Reading

    The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  June 3, 2024
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