• Literary Criticism

    Christmas

    Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 18, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Ultimate Best Books of 2024 List

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2024
    Bad Reviews

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 17, 2024
    On Poetry

    Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

    By Peter Mishler  December 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 17, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 17, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Self-Help?

    The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

    By Ian Williams  December 16, 2024
    Photography

    The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

    By Karla Kelsey  December 16, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 13, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    Social Media

    Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

    By Maris Kreizman  December 12, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 12, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 12, 2024
    Children's Literature

    Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 11, 2024
    Literary Heroes

    Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep

    By Nathan Deuel  December 11, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

    By David S. Cho  December 11, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2024
    On Reading

    Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

    By Orlando Reade  December 10, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 10, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

    By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Paul McCartney! Hannah Arendt’s poetry! “Paradise Lost”! 15 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 10, 2024
    Best Books of 2024

    17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

    By Drew Broussard  December 9, 2024
    Mexican Literature

    Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

    By Merve Emre  December 9, 2024
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