Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Works by Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, and more

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul on What We’ve Lost to the Internet

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 28, 2021

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Lincoln Michel Goes Deep Into the Prose of America’s Pastime

By Lincoln Michel | October 28, 2021

What’s Missing Here? A Fragmentary, Lyric Essay About Fragmentary, Lyric Essays

What’s Missing Here? A Fragmentary, Lyric Essay About Fragmentary, Lyric Essays

Julie Marie Wade on the Mode That Never Quite Feels Finished

By Julie Marie Wade | October 28, 2021

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

Tristram Hunt on the Union of Moral Passion and Commercial Acumen

By Tristram Hunt | October 28, 2021

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

Myisha Cherry Balances Anger and Optimism in Navigating Systemic Oppression

By Myisha Cherry | October 28, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

5 Important Books That Reveal the Human Cost of War

By Janine di Giovanni | October 28, 2021

John Concagh on the Role of African, Caribbean, and Black British Forces in WWII

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 28, 2021

Lucy Corin on the Near-Death Experience That Changed Everything

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 28, 2021

A Year Later: Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Reflect on Political Radicalism, Inventive Aesthetics, and the Publication of Their Anthology

A Year Later: Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Reflect on Political Radicalism, Inventive Aesthetics, and the Publication of Their Anthology

Peter Mishler Talks to the Editors of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

By Peter Mishler | October 28, 2021

On the Dual Life of a Writer and Painter: A Conversation with Brom

On the Dual Life of a Writer and Painter: A Conversation with Brom

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | October 28, 2021

Brendan Borrell on the Inside Story of Operation Warp Speed

Brendan Borrell on the Inside Story of Operation Warp Speed

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 28, 2021

From the Outside-In: Who Has the Right to Photograph a Community?

From the Outside-In: Who Has the Right to Photograph a Community?

Emma Lewis on Feminist Photography and Storytelling

By Emma Lewis | October 28, 2021

<em>The Great Mistake</em> by Jonathan Lee, Read by Graham Halstead

The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee, Read by Graham Halstead

A Novel on a Mysterious Real-Life Murder

By Behind the Mic | October 28, 2021

A Scientific Explanation for Your Urge to Sniff Old Books

A Scientific Explanation for Your Urge to Sniff Old Books

Jude Stewart Breaks Down the Chemical Reactions Behind Olfactory Bibliomania

By Jude Stewart | October 27, 2021

The 10 Best Book Covers of October

The 10 Best Book Covers of October

In Praise of Jackets as Sweater-Weather Arrives

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2021

« First‹ Previous537538539540541542543544545Next ›Last »
Page 541 of 1225
    • 5 Novels with Perfectly Unsympathetic ProtagonistsJanuary 29, 2026 by Sophie Hannah
    • Adriane Leigh on Why We Are Living in the Age of the Unreliable NarratorJanuary 29, 2026 by Adriane Leigh
    • The Greatest Muckrakers of the Progressive EraJanuary 29, 2026 by Rob Osler
    • The Rest of Our Lives
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
    • "Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…"
  • 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