Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2020

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2020

The Best Writing at the Site in this Annus Horribilis

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2020

How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

On the 'Mutually Beneficial' Relationship Between Rose Macaulay and Critic Naomi Royde-Smith

By Sarah Lonsdale | December 23, 2020

Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

In Conversation with Eivind Hofstad Evjemo on
the How to Proceed Podcast

By How to Proceed | December 23, 2020

What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

Jane Gallop in Conversation with H. Aram Veeser

By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop | December 23, 2020

Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

In Conversation With Gary Lovely

By Gary Lovely | December 22, 2020

What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy's <em>The Group</em>

What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy's The Group

They Dismissed It As a "Lady-Writer’s Novel"

By Apoorva Tadepalli | December 22, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2020

By Book Marks | December 22, 2020

On Religion and Nonviolent Protest in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie

By Lit Century | December 22, 2020

Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?

By Ruth Madievsky | December 21, 2020

What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing

What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing

Sara B. Franklin on the Best Family Reads of a Very Hard Year

By Sara B. Franklin | December 21, 2020

The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2020

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2020

Adam Morgan Picks Parul Sehgal on Raven Leilani, Merve Emre on Lewis Carroll, and more

By Adam Morgan | December 21, 2020

On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem

On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem "little tree"

And How Its Tweeness Manages to Transcend Holiday Kitsch

By J. Alison Rosenblitt | December 21, 2020

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and<br> Chicano Poetry

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

politics of identity as irony."">"To be a Chicanao poet is to be dealing with the
politics of identity as irony."

By Lorna Dee Cervantes | December 21, 2020

Rewriting the American Canon with <em>The Book of Firsts</em>

Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | December 21, 2020

The Best Reviewed Graphic<br> Literature of 2020

The Best Reviewed Graphic
Literature of 2020

Featuring Adrian Tomine, Joe Sacco, Lauren Redniss,
Derf Backderf, and more

By Book Marks | December 18, 2020

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

Featuring Elena Ferrante, Isabel Allende, Sayaka Murata,
Samanta Schweblin, and more

By Book Marks | December 18, 2020

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