Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • Become A Member
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
Soft Core

Soft Core

Brittany Newell

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 5, 2025

Lion

Lion

Sonya Walger

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 4, 2025

Victorian Psycho

Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 3, 2025

Penitence

Penitence

Kristin Koval

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 31, 2025

This Love

This Love

Lotte Jeffs

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 30, 2025

The English Problem

The English Problem

Beena Kamlani

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 29, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

“Nell and the Marmot”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 28, 2025

Underground Barbie

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 27, 2025

“Tutorial”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 24, 2025

The River, The Town

The River, The Town

Farah Ali

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 23, 2025

A Gorgeous Excitement

A Gorgeous Excitement

Cynthia Weiner

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 22, 2025

The New Internationals

The New Internationals

David Wright Faladé

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 21, 2025

Something Rotten

Something Rotten

Andrew Lipstein

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 17, 2025

My Darling Boy

My Darling Boy

John Dufresne

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 16, 2025

Good Girl

Good Girl

Aria Aber

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 15, 2025

“The Dragon Flute”

“The Dragon Flute”

Yukio Mishima (trans. Sam Bett)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 14, 2025

« First‹ Previous232425262728293031Next ›Last »
Page 27 of 149
    • 10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the TalkingOctober 6, 2026 by Eva Jurczyk
    • Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British MysteriesOctober 6, 2026 by Katherine Reay
    • Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art WorldOctober 6, 2026 by Faith Gladwin
    • Exit Party
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

  • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.