• Features

    Just the Right Book

    Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

    By Just the Right Book   August 22, 2019
    Capitalism

    ‘Late Capitalism,’ a Prose Poem by Alissa Quart

    By Alissa Quart  August 22, 2019
    #TBT

    Is a Good Book a Good Book No Matter How Old You Are?

    By Literary Disco  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

    By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
    Philosophy

    For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

    By Jonathan Rée  August 21, 2019
    Religion

    On Victor Hugo’s Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

    By Abby Walthausen  August 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

    By Boze Herrington  August 21, 2019
    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

    By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
    News and Culture

    At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

    By Marcia Douglas  August 21, 2019
    Reading Women

    On the Failure of Language Around Women’s Chronic Mental Illness

    By Reading Women  August 21, 2019
    Otherppl

    Shane Jones on Throwing Away 40,000 Words

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 21, 2019
    Screenwriters

    Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

    By Walter Mosley  August 20, 2019
    Democracy

    Western Democracy is on
    Shaky Ground

    By Simon Reid-Henry  August 20, 2019
    Education

    Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 20, 2019
    Sex

    The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

    By Nicola Waldron  August 20, 2019
    Poetry

    ‘Wedding Day’
    A Poem by Seamus Heaney

    By Seamus Heaney  August 20, 2019
    Art History

    At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

    By Sue Roe  August 20, 2019
    Masters In Conversation

    Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Influences

    Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

    By Rajia Hassib  August 19, 2019
    Animals

    For the Love of Horses, From Girlhood to Old Age

    By Tory Bilski  August 19, 2019
    Language

    Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

    By Brittani Sonnenberg  August 19, 2019
    Fascism

    Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

    By Francesco Pacifico  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

    By Kanako Nishi  August 19, 2019
    Page 674 of 917

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.