• Features

    Poets

    Ayre (himself remaining anonymous)

    By Jimin Seo  May 17, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 16, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    From The Satanic Verses to Scientology, Pamela Paul’s Foray in Bookselling

    By Pamela Paul  May 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Fulfilling the Promise to Visit My Late Lover’s Parents

    By Fenton Johnson  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    What’s So Bad About Being Bored at Work?

    By Mary Mann  May 16, 2017
    Advice

    “Write What You Know” is Not Good Writing Advice

    By Kate Southwood  May 16, 2017
    Archives

    Sharecropper Emma Woods on Meeting James Agee

    By Emily Temple  May 16, 2017
    Poets

    Poet Alan Felsenthal Brings the Light With Him

    By Thora Siemsen  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

    By Mary V. Dearborn  May 16, 2017
    What to Read

    5 Books Making News This Week: Songs, Short Stories, and Sophocles

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 16, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 15, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Fine Art of Cheating in Baseball

    By Terry McDermott  May 15, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Muslim YA Author on Belonging at a Tennessee Book Festival

    By Sheba Karim  May 15, 2017
    Events

    A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  May 15, 2017
    History

    The Canonization of Dylan Thomas

    By Bernard Schwartz  May 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    What is Money, Anyway?

    By Pascal Bruckner  May 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

    By Aaron Bady  May 15, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: May 8 – 12, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 13, 2017
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2017

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

    By Mary Morris  May 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    In Motherhood, I Became a Fire-breathing Female Monster

    By Marianne Leone  May 12, 2017
    Poets

    Eulogy, a Poem by Sherman Alexie

    By Sherman Alexie  May 12, 2017
    What to Read

    The Women Surrealists Helping Me Through our New Political Reality

    By Selena Chambers  May 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Mother and her Trans Son on Finding Their New Middle Ground

    By Donald Collins and Mary Collins  May 12, 2017
    News

    The Week in Literary Film and TV News

    By Emily Temple  May 12, 2017
    Page 855 of 912

    • 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.