The Right Kind of Doll: Sarah Moss on the Prides and Pressures of Girlhood

The Right Kind of Doll: Sarah Moss on the Prides and Pressures of Girlhood

“You knew... that taste was indistinguishable from morality and yours wasn’t good enough.”

By Sarah Moss | October 24, 2024

Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

Robin Waterfield Explores Some Little-Known Aspects of These Ancient Bite-Sized Tales

By Robin Waterfield | October 24, 2024

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

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

Featuring Jeff VanderMeer, André Aciman, John le Carré, and More

By Book Marks | October 24, 2024

Fighting Words: </br>A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

Fighting Words:
A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

Two Former Students Remember Their Friend and Teacher

By Yousef Aljamal and Rawan Yaghi | October 24, 2024

Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 24, 2024

What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

What’s In a Lie? On the Different Ways Politicians Mislead the Public

Bill Adair Considers the Corrosive Effects of Deliberate Deception on American Democracy

By Bill Adair | October 23, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Maggie Smith’s Greatest Literary Role is Also Her Most Complex: Miss Jean Brodie

By Vanessa Braganza | October 23, 2024

How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

By Tom Parker Bowles | October 23, 2024

Anatomy of a Bad Trip: On the Less-Than-Magical Side of Magic Mushrooms

By Eugenia Bone | October 23, 2024

Portal to a Forgotten Land: Finding Your Character’s Voice In Old Diaries

Portal to a Forgotten Land: Finding Your Character’s Voice In Old Diaries

Tyler Wetherall on Channeling Her Memories of Girlhood Through Fiction

By Tyler Wetherall | October 23, 2024

Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness' Many Forms

Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness' Many Forms

Three Meditations on Vision From Naomi Cohn

By Naomi Cohn | October 23, 2024

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Molly McCully Brown: “I hope I can look long and hard enough to let the mess and the mystery break my heart.”

By Molly McCully Brown | October 23, 2024

Kemi Ashing-Giwa and CJ Leede on Scaring and Being Scared

Kemi Ashing-Giwa and CJ Leede on Scaring and Being Scared

In Conversation with Drew Broussard

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 23, 2024

Jason Reynolds on Subverting Masculinity

Jason Reynolds on Subverting Masculinity

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 23, 2024

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature

Liz Jackson on the Irreconcilable Hypocrises of Corporate “Anti-Ableism”

By Liz Jackson | October 22, 2024

Charles Baxter Lets Stories Tell Him When It’s Time to Write (and Other Literary Morsels)

Charles Baxter Lets Stories Tell Him When It’s Time to Write (and Other Literary Morsels)

The Author of “Blood Test” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | October 22, 2024

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