• Literary Criticism

    Romance

    Messy, Impractical and Irresistible: In Praise of Over-the-Top Romance

    By Nora Nguyen  September 24, 2024
    Young Adult

    Middle Grade for All Ages: 10 Great Books with Strong Tween Characters

    By Stuart Gibbs  September 24, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Sally Rooney! Olga Tokarczuk! Pedro Almodóvar! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 24, 2024
    Dystopias

    How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With The Iron Heel

    By Ken McGoogan  September 23, 2024
    What to Read Next

    Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

    By Emily Temple  September 23, 2024
    Music Writing

    How Chinese and Italian Opera Helped Her Write and Grieve

    By Liu Hong  September 23, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Campus Repression and Remixing Proust (lol): This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 20, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 20, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 19, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 19, 2024
    On Poetry

    Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

    By Diana Khoi Nguyen  September 19, 2024
    Literary Theory

    Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

    By Ron Rosenbaum  September 19, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

    By History of Literature  September 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 19, 2024
    Class

    Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

    By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart  September 18, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

    By Lisa Yaszek  September 18, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  September 18, 2024
    Reading Lists

    The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 17, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rumaan Alam! Gay Shakespeare! How Elon Musk killed Twitter! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 17, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

    By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 13, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 13, 2024
    Characters

    Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

    By Anna Johnston  September 13, 2024
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