• Literary Criticism

    Desire

    The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Eight Books About Complicated Desire

    By Kate Hamilton  October 16, 2024
    craft advice

    No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

    By John Larison  October 16, 2024
    literary criticism

    “A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

    By Joyce Carol Oates  October 15, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Mark Haddon! Dorothy Parker! Anthony Bourdain! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 15, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 11, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

    By Cherry Lou Sy  October 11, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  October 11, 2024
    Westerns

    Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

    By Maris Kreizman  October 10, 2024
    Influences

    From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

    By Michael Lynn Crews  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

    By Samantha Greene Woodruff  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 10, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 10, 2024
    Folklore

    Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

    By Ben Edge  October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

    By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 8, 2024
    Income Inequality

    “Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

    By Douglas Unger  October 7, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

    By Jamie Quatro  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    French literature

    All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

    By Deborah Levy  October 7, 2024
    Mythology

    Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

    By Douglas J. Penick  October 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  October 4, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

    By AudioFile Magazine  October 4, 2024
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