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
  • Become A Member
  • 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
  • Reading Challenge
  • 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
  • Reading Challenge
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
Why Whitney Houston’s Rendition of the National Anthem Still Matters

Why Whitney Houston’s Rendition of the National Anthem Still Matters

Gerrick Kennedy on Houston’s Legendary 1991 Performance

By Gerrick Kennedy | February 2, 2022

Leanne Shapton on the Desire to Always Go Bigger

Leanne Shapton on the Desire to Always Go Bigger

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | February 2, 2022

On <em>The Lost Daughter</em>, <em> Vladimir</em>, and What Happens When Women Have Had Enough

On The Lost Daughter, Vladimir, and What Happens When Women Have Had Enough

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Investigates the Intersection
of Motherhood and Art

By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | February 2, 2022

We Need to Radically Rethink the Library of Congress Classification

We Need to Radically Rethink the Library of Congress Classification

Claire Woodcock on the Search for a More Democratic Way of Organizing Knowledge

By Claire Woodcock | February 2, 2022

Will Smith Should’ve Been Our Rom-Com Hero

Will Smith Should’ve Been Our Rom-Com Hero

Scott Meslow on the Cost of Hollywood’s Institutional Racism

By Scott Meslow | February 2, 2022

Maeve Higgins on The Work in Progress That Is America

Maeve Higgins on The Work in Progress That Is America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 2, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

The Meaningful Mundane:
6 Classic Books That Depict Black Girlhood

By Kai Harris | February 2, 2022

Tom Cooper on Moby-Dick, Florida Books, and Terrible Sex Scenes

By Book Marks | February 2, 2022

Osman Yousefzada Reads from The Go-Between

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | February 2, 2022

Thomas J. Main on How Improved Identity Politics Can Restore Our Trust in Government

Thomas J. Main on How Improved Identity Politics Can Restore Our Trust in Government

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 2, 2022

<em>How We Eat</em> by Paco Underhill, Read by Adam Barr, Aden Hakimi, and Karissa Vacker

How We Eat by Paco Underhill, Read by Adam Barr, Aden Hakimi, and Karissa Vacker

Exploring the New World of Food and Drink

By Behind the Mic | February 2, 2022

The Sacred and Profane: Revisiting a 2018 Interview with Giancarlo DiTrapano

The Sacred and Profane: Revisiting a 2018 Interview with Giancarlo DiTrapano

In Honor of the Newly Founded DiTrapano Foundation, Chiara Barzini Remembers a Dear Friend

By Chiara Barzini | February 1, 2022

Easy Come, Easy Go: Lan Samantha Chang on Writing, Debt, and Diamonds

Easy Come, Easy Go: Lan Samantha Chang on Writing, Debt, and Diamonds

“The money will come and go but you will always have a good piece of jewelry.”

By Lan Samantha Chang | February 1, 2022

Why We Should All Be Reading English Novelist Kay Dick

Why We Should All Be Reading English Novelist Kay Dick

Lucy Scholes on the Life and Writing of the Underappreciated Author of

By Lucy Scholes | February 1, 2022

February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Alternate-Universe Road Trips, Haunted Spaceships, Pulpy Gunslingers, and More!

By Book Marks | February 1, 2022

Simon Critchley, Spencer Bailey, and Andrew Zuckerman on the Pandemic Thus Far

Simon Critchley, Spencer Bailey, and Andrew Zuckerman on the Pandemic Thus Far

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | February 1, 2022

« First‹ Previous686687688689690691692693694Next ›Last »
Page 690 of 1601
    • Your Guide to Dolly Parton's Crime MoviesSeptember 1, 2026 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • Rebecca Stafford on the Entrancing Moral Quandaries of Dark AcademiaSeptember 1, 2026 by Rebecca Stafford
    • Madeline Martin on Matthew Hopkins and the Deadliest Witch Hunt in EnglandSeptember 1, 2026 by Madeline Martin
    • Etna
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
    • "By the close of Part of Paul Yoon s wonderful new novel em Etna em…"
  • 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.