Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 7, 2026

Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Irene Zabytko Recounts the Process of Creating Her Own Version on The Canterbury Tales

By Irene Zabytko | May 7, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“One can barely imagine the intolerable weight of this family inheritance... irresistible for so many years yet the only thing one wants to escape.”

By Book Marks | May 7, 2026

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

Harrison Hill in Conversation with Benjamin Hale

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

Davin Malasarn in Conversation With Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez

By Davin Malasarn | May 7, 2026

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

Rosa Campbell Considers the Decades-Long Development of an Iconic Poetic Voice

By Rosa Campbell | May 7, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

By Laurie Frankel | May 7, 2026

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

By Diane Les Becquets | May 7, 2026

How I Found Myself—and My Next Setting—at the Beach

By Angela Brown | May 7, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending May 3, 2026

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending May 3, 2026

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2026

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 7, 2026

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

Ilona Bannister Recommends Angie Cruz, Rumaan Alam, Laura Sims, and More

By Ilona Bannister | May 6, 2026

“Mise en Abyme,” a Poem by Lisa Russ Spaar

“Mise en Abyme,” a Poem by Lisa Russ Spaar

From the Collection Soul Cake

By Lisa Russ Spaar | May 6, 2026

“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

Juliet Faithfull Remembers a Childhood Without the Right to Speak Freely

By Juliet Faithfull | May 6, 2026

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Moving From Resolve to Action, Addressing the Climate Crisis

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Moving From Resolve to Action, Addressing the Climate Crisis

On Hope and Creating an Ode to Fixing the Planet

By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | May 6, 2026

Page 27 of 1593

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

    • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.