• Features

    What to Read

    10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 20, 2016
    Feature

    18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

    By Emily Temple  December 20, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Shirley Hazzard’s Teenage Spy Career

    By Paul French  December 20, 2016
    What to Read

    Five Books Making News This Week: Criticism, Conservation & Cartography

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 20, 2016
    History

    A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

    By David Welky  December 20, 2016
    Art

    Rabih Alameddine is Amplifying the Images and Art of Aleppo

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 19, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 19, 2016
    Criticism

    The Art of a Nation Will Outlast Its Governments

    By Veronica Esposito  December 19, 2016
    Excerpts

    My Louise Bourgeois

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 19, 2016
    Craft

    Why Is it ‘Unrealistic’ to Show Women in Power in Fantasy?

    By Literary Hub  December 19, 2016
    What to Read

    12 Writers on the Books They’re Giving as Gifts This Year

    By Lorraine Berry  December 19, 2016
    Excerpts

    Minorities Are the Majority

    By Salena Godden  December 19, 2016
    Features

    Best of the Week: December 12 – 16, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 17, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 16, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 16, 2016
    Op-Ed

    The Best Children’s Books Appeal to All Ages

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Joan Didion’s Disaffected Literary Descendants

    By Katie Dobbs  December 16, 2016
    Feature

    Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

    By Emily Temple  December 16, 2016
    Craft

    Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal’s Czechoslovakia

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  December 16, 2016
    Short story writers

    Getting Lost in William Trevor’s Private World

    By D. Wystan Owen  December 16, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

    By Pablo Medina  December 16, 2016
    Features

    Watch a Video about the Beauty of the Literary Barbershop

    By Emily Temple  December 16, 2016
    Features

    I Am the Moon, And You Are a Man

    By Isabel Greenberg  December 16, 2016
    Did you know?

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About How the NY Times Book Review Works

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2016
    Features

    LitHub Daily: December 15, 2016

    By Lit Hub Daily  December 15, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

    By Jonathan Reiber  December 15, 2016
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