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Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of
The Lord of the Rings
and
The Hobbit
on His Childhood
By
Michael D.C. Drout
| December 23, 2025
Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?
David Berry on the Long Tradition of Artists as Critics, From Xie He to Charles Baudelaire
By
David Berry
| December 22, 2025
A Timeless Portrait of Black Life: James Baldwin on Louise Meriwether’s
Daddy Was a Number Runner
“She has told everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country.”
By
James Baldwin
| December 22, 2025
Why Clearing Stormfall
With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose
Claire Thompson Considers the Unlikely Physicality
of Writing (on a Good Day)
By
Claire Thompson
| December 22, 2025
Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh on
Parable of the Sower
, and Her Love of Sci-Fi
“There’s so much book in that book.”
By
James Folta
| December 19, 2025
Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!
The books that took home home this year’s biggest literary prizes
By
Book Marks
| December 19, 2025
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
From Hitchhiking the Sahara (and Storing Hash in the Garage) to Co-Founding MTV and Running Viacom
By
Terry McDonell
| December 19, 2025
Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice
By
Sara Martin
| December 19, 2025
Beyond Memoir: A Roundtable on Health, Identity, and the Invisible Injury We Aren’t Talking About
By
Molly Gaudry, Carmen Giménez, D/Annie Liontas
| December 19, 2025
Five Books About the Most Important Photographs of the Vietnam War—and the Photographers Who Took Them
An Essential Reading List from Gary Knight
By
Gary Knight
| December 19, 2025
Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on
The Lit Hub Podcast
Plus, Jonny Diamond reading “A Visit from St. Nicholas”!
By
The Lit Hub Podcast
| December 19, 2025
The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025
“Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.”
By
Adam Morgan
| December 18, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| December 18, 2025
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My
Harry Potter
Fandom as a Trans Person
Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia
By
Sandy Ernest Allen
| December 18, 2025
On the Past and Present of Authoritarianism, War, and Literature in Europe
A Conversation with Artem Chapeye, Peter Osnos, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones
By
Literary Hub
| December 18, 2025
Hitler and My Mother-In-Law (and the Slippery Terrain of Truth)
Terese Svoboda on What Happens When We Mix Personal Memories with Public Histories
By
Terese Svoboda
| December 18, 2025
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Senior Sleuths: The Art and Appeal of Mysteries Starring Older Detectives
December 23, 2025
by
Michelle L. Cullen
The Day They Jailed The Babe
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by
Dean Jobb
The Great Fictional Mystery Authors of Classic TV
December 23, 2025
by
Hector DeJean
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"