The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

Featuring Louise Erdrich, Kaveh Akbar, Tommy Orange, Rita Bullwinkel, Garth Greenwell, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2024

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching <em>Paradise Lost</em> to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

By Orlando Reade | December 10, 2024

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Ella Baxter, Christopher Bollen, Eliza Moss, and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 10, 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

By Tobias Carroll | December 10, 2024

“Sexting is Roleplay About Desire,” a Prose Poem by Vera Blossom

“Sexting is Roleplay About Desire,” a Prose Poem by Vera Blossom

From the Essay Collection “How to Fuck Like a Girl”

By Vera Blossom | December 10, 2024

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s <em>Texas: The Great Theft</em>

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

“Like a thief, gossip moves swiftly, undeterred by rivers or valleys, indifferent to borders and the hotheads who patrol them.”

By Merve Emre | December 9, 2024

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Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2024

How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

By Lydia Reeder | December 9, 2024

Gabra Zackman on 2024's Best Nonfiction and Culture Audiobooks

By Behind the Mic | December 9, 2024

Anna Noyes on Knowing When to Give Up

Anna Noyes on Knowing When to Give Up

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 9, 2024

Faith Adiele on Hybrid Writing for Hybrid Lives

Faith Adiele on Hybrid Writing for Hybrid Lives

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | December 9, 2024

Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How <em>Nightbitch</em> Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

Janet Manley on Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s Novel

By Janet Manley | December 6, 2024

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

With Drew Broussard, Calvin Kasulke, Jonny Diamond, and James Folta

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 6, 2024

Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

“Home, like history, is at once both expansive and incomplete, a necessary mystery.”

By Beowulf Sheehan | December 6, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Weike Wang, Woodworking, Pat Barker, and More

By Book Marks | December 6, 2024

Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

Glenn Adamson on the Rise and Fall of Europe’s Early 20th-Century Artistic Avant-Garde

By Glenn Adamson | December 6, 2024

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