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
  • BUY A HAT
  • 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
    • The Best of the Decade
  • 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
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota

Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 22, 2026

Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing

Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing

Ed Simon on the Eternal Tension Between Human Creativity and Mechanical Efficiency

By Ed Simon | January 21, 2026

What’s In a Literary Brand? David Guterson on Maintaining an Authorial Persona... Or Not

What’s In a Literary Brand? David Guterson on Maintaining an Authorial Persona... Or Not

How the Author of Snow Falling on Cedars Remained True to Himself as a Working Writer

By David Guterson | January 20, 2026

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 Daniyal Mueenuddin, Jung Chang, Madeline Cash, and More

By Book Marks | January 16, 2026

On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” <em>The Chronology of Water</em>

On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” The Chronology of Water

Asha Dore Considers Stories in the Body, on the Page, and on Screen

By Asha Dore | January 16, 2026

Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel

Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel

Madeleine Dunnigan on the Joys of Channeling Teenage Angst In Her Fiction

By Madeleine Dunnigan | January 16, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

The All-Of-It-Ness of Motherhood: Five Books to Read in the Early Days of Parenting

By Catherine Pierce | January 16, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | January 15, 2026

Questions and Crimes: Golan Haji on Art and Letters in the New Syria

By Golan Haji | January 15, 2026

Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

Nick Ripatrazone on the Importance of the Creative Ego

By Nick Ripatrazone | January 15, 2026

Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?

Am I the Asshole For Having a Huge Crush on My Editor?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About
Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 15, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniyal Mueenuddin Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring James Joyce, Susan Orlean, Lauren Groff, and More

By Diana Arterian | January 15, 2026

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 15, 2026

Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel

Is Artistic Ego a Faustian Bargain? Karl Ove Knausgaard on Plot, Narcissism, and His New Novel

Eric Olson Profiles the Author of The School of Night

By Eric Olson | January 14, 2026

A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts

A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts

Sara Levine Recommends Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Elena Ferrante

By Sara Levine | January 14, 2026

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

A Conversation Between Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman on God, Poetry, Joyce, Pound, and More

By Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman | January 13, 2026

‹ Previous123456Next ›Last »
Page 2 of 352
    • Adriane Leigh on Why We Are Living in the Age of the Unreliable NarratorJanuary 29, 2026 by Adriane Leigh
    • The Greatest Muckrakers of the Progressive EraJanuary 29, 2026 by Rob Osler
    • Why Revenge Stories Are Hard-Wired Into Our BrainsJanuary 29, 2026 by Pat Kelly
    • Departure(s)
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Slim and stark Barnes s prose is largely stripped bare it resembles a tall ship…"
  • 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