• Features

    Politics

    The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus

    Eoin Higgins on the Paranoid Billionaire’s Rightward Swing

     
    By Eoin Higgins  February 5, 2025
    Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

    By Shigehiro Oishi  February 5, 2025
    Love

    Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

    By Jessica Soffer  February 5, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

    By Rahul Bery  February 5, 2025
    Shakespeare

    The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

    By Grace Tiffany  February 4, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Mothers and Sons

    Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

    By Allegra Goodman  February 4, 2025
    Psychology

    How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

    By Sarah Perry  February 4, 2025
    Bibliophobia

    Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

    By Sarah Chihaya  February 4, 2025
    Harlem Renaissance

    Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

    Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

    By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
    Technology

    Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

    By Alex Rollins Berg  February 3, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Skeld Season, Spider Brides, and Black Orbs: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  February 3, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Orphans, Institutions, and Adventures Out West: Five Books Featuring Unconventional Families

    By Tom Lamont  February 3, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Small Joys for Winter: 10 Great New Children’s Books to Read in February

    Caroline Carlson Recommends the Latest Reads for Your Kids’ TBR Pile

    By Caroline Carlson  February 3, 2025
    Poetry

    “Postpositivity in Spring,” a Poem by Oli Hazzard

    By Oli Hazzard  February 3, 2025
    Poetry

    Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February

    By Christopher Spaide  February 3, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sadeqa Johnson on Writing Characters Your Readers Will Care About

    By Write-minded   February 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on the Wonders of Life

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  January 31, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Men, Read a Book Please

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   January 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  January 31, 2025
    Urbanism

    How Local and Federal Laws Disenfranchised a Generation of Black Homeowners

    Bernadette Atuahene on the Lasting Material and Psychological Impact of Racist Post-War Housing Policies

    By Bernadette Atuahene  January 31, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of February

    By AudioFile Magazine  January 31, 2025
    Indian Literature

    What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

    By Ranjit Hoskote  January 31, 2025
    Awakeners

    Firefeet on 10 Years as a Writing Group

    By Awakeners   February 4, 2025
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