Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?

David Berry on the Long Tradition of Artists as Critics, From Xie He to Charles Baudelaire

By David Berry | December 22, 2025

A Timeless Portrait of Black Life: James Baldwin on Louise Meriwether’s <em>Daddy Was a Number Runner</em>

A Timeless Portrait of Black Life: James Baldwin on Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner

“She has told everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country.”

By James Baldwin | December 22, 2025

Why Clearing Stormfall <br>With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Why Clearing Stormfall
With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Claire Thompson Considers the Unlikely Physicality
of Writing (on a Good Day)

By Claire Thompson | December 22, 2025

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

The books that took home home this year’s biggest literary prizes

By Book Marks | December 19, 2025

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Or: The Poetry of a Boarding House

By Sara Martin | December 19, 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

“Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.”

By Adam Morgan | December 18, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

By Kristen Arnett | December 18, 2025

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

By Sandy Ernest Allen | December 18, 2025

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 18, 2025

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

By Gerri Kimber | December 17, 2025

How <em>Ulysses</em> Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

How Ulysses Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson and the Early Fight Against Literary Censorship in America

By Adam Morgan | December 17, 2025

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Poet, Novelist, Equestrian, Community Builder, Philanthropist

By Imani Perry, Raina León, Garlia Cornelia Jones | December 17, 2025

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

Kate Evans Considers the Social and Economic Factors That Contributed to the Writer’s Creative Development

By Kate Evans | December 17, 2025

It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

Lit Hub Editor in Chief Jonny Diamond Would
Like You to Become a Member

By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

Featuring Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

Featuring Lily King, David Szalay, Gish Jen, Han Kang, and More

By Book Marks | December 15, 2025

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