• Features

    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

    “Most of the fantasies I read as a child, all the good guys were white.”

     
    By Arwen Curry  October 4, 2023
    What to Watch

    50 Years Ago, One of the Gutsiest, Strangest Sci-Fi Movie Franchises Came to a Close with Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    By Matthew Hays  October 4, 2023
    Parenting

    Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing

    By Shannon Sanders  October 4, 2023
    Audiobook Narration

    On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

    By Freda Love Smith  October 4, 2023
    Civil Rights

    The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

    By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 4, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Keen On

    Charles Derber on How Capitalism is Driving Extinction

    By Keen On  October 4, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    No Place Like London: V.E. Schwab, Lina Rather, and Oliver Darkshire

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 4, 2023
    Book Anniversary

    Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner

    By Khaled Hosseini  October 3, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jonathan Lethem Hopes You Ask Him About Dedication Page

    The Author of Brooklyn Crime Novel Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Literary Hub  October 4, 2023
    What to Watch

    More, More, More: Why We Love Author Documentaries

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 3, 2023
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    Labor

    What the WGA’s Historic Contract Means for All Writers in the Fight Against Generative AI

    By Alexis Gunderson  October 3, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe’s Obsession With Eugenics

    From Mackenzie Cooley's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Perfection of Nature

    By Mackenzie Cooley  October 3, 2023
    In Conversation

    Daniel Gumbiner on Wildfires, Winemaking, and Writing Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Taylor Lorenz on Being Extremely Online

    By Keen On  October 3, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Kathleen Rooney on the Woman Behind the Fairies

    By I'm a Writer But   October 3, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Lydia Davis Wasn’t a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

    (As If We Didn't Love Her Enough Already)

    By Lydia Davis  October 2, 2023
    Queer Lit

    Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 2, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

    By Lucy Scholes  October 2, 2023
    Poetry

    Our Own Inner World: Seven New Poetry Books for October

    By David Woo  October 2, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

    Matthew Connelly on Human Cost of Secret Science

    By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 2023
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Weather Magic, Jinn-Bots, and Halloween Horror: October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  October 2, 2023
    Write-minded

    Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

    By Write-minded   October 2, 2023
    Poverty

    Legacies Both Ragged and Rich: Michelle Tea on Poverty and the American Family

    By Michelle Tea  October 3, 2023
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