13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

By Katie Yee | August 31, 2021

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

By Emily Temple | August 31, 2021

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | August 31, 2021

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | August 31, 2021

A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

Surrendering to Narrative in The Piano and Klara and the Sun

By Aimee Bender | August 30, 2021

The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

Robert McCrum Explores Popular Revolt in Shakespeare

By Robert McCrum | August 30, 2021

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Imaginary Kingdoms: On the Power of Literature That Speaks to Children and Adults Alike

By Stephen Prickett | August 30, 2021

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

By Samantha Silva | August 30, 2021

On Henry James’s Very Long Short Story

By History of Literature | August 30, 2021

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

Richard Barnett Reads the Tractatus as Modernist War Poetry

By Richard Barnett | August 27, 2021

Who Gets To Be <em>Bossypants</em>? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

Sarah Jaffe on Ellie Kemper, Tina Fey, and Tiffany Haddish

By Sarah Jaffe | August 27, 2021

On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

Gordy Sauer Recommends Books by Téa Obreht, Hernan Diaz, and More

By Gordy Sauer | August 27, 2021

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

Amy Wright Wonders “What We Can Bear to Learn?”

By Amy Wright | August 27, 2021

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

Kia Corthron on the Challenges of Dialect in Historical Fiction

By Kia Corthron | August 27, 2021

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

Jaye Viner Recommends Narratives of Personal Exodus

By Jaye Viner | August 26, 2021

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