Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Thomas Swick Examines the Parallels Between Two Joyous (and Thankless) Vocations

By Thomas Swick | September 5, 2025

Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing

Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing

Emily Meg Weinstein on Rock Climbing and Saving Herself

By Emily Meg Weinstein | September 5, 2025

It’s Back to School <em>and</em> Spooky Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

It’s Back to School and Spooky Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Joelle Renstrom, Max Booth III, Molly Odintz, Drew Broussard, and a phone call from Michael Kelly

By The Lit Hub Podcast | September 5, 2025

The WWI Battle That Never Ended: Finding Unexploded Mines in Verdun’s Fields

The WWI Battle That Never Ended: Finding Unexploded Mines in Verdun’s Fields

Michael Jerome Plunkett on France's De-miners and Discoveries While Writing a War Novel

By Michael Jerome Plunkett | September 5, 2025

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 Rabih Alameddine, Arundhati Roy, Patrick Ryan, and More

By Book Marks | September 5, 2025

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”

By Brian Robert Moore | September 5, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

By Leila Chatti | September 5, 2025

Patrick Ryan on the Secrets of the Omniscient Narrator

By Patrick Ryan | September 5, 2025

How Writing in Community Can Forge Friendships and Evoke Change

By Beverly Gologorsky | September 5, 2025

The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

Devoney Looser on the Perennial Appeal of Jane Austen’s Remarkable Heroine

By Devoney Looser | September 4, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A monument to the vapidity and vulgarity of the culture that incubated it.”

By Book Marks | September 4, 2025

Hearts Touched With Fire: Horror and Hope in a Time of Genocide

Hearts Touched With Fire: Horror and Hope in a Time of Genocide

Jack Sheehan on Fighting Despair as the Slaughter in Gaza Continues

By Jack Sheehan | September 4, 2025

I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 4, 2025

Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

Big Sister Writer, Little Brother Editor: Can They Work Together?

Laura and Colin Dickerman in Conversation About Laura’s New Novel, “Hot Desk”

By Literary Hub | September 4, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kevin Young Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Nicholas Boggs, Mavis Gallant, Jack Kerouac and More

By Diana Arterian | September 4, 2025

A New Translation of <em>Grave of the Fireflies</em> Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

Ginny Tapley Takemori on the Realities of War and Translating for a New Audience

By Ginny Tapley Takemori | September 4, 2025

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