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
    • 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
Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of <em>Moonrise Kingdom</em>

Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson’s Film About Two Misunderstood Preteens Has More in Common with Terrence Malick’s Badlands Than it Might Seem

By Ethan Warren | August 12, 2022

A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> to Sitcoms

A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from Saturday Night Live to Sitcoms

Annie Berke Watches the SNL Spinoff Vehicles Loot and I Love That for You

By Annie Berke | August 12, 2022

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Read a Scene from Five Days at Memorial, Newly Adapted by Apple TV+

By Sheri Fink | August 12, 2022

Fire up your loins because the Nabokovs are coming to TV.

Fire up your loins because the Nabokovs are coming to TV.

By Dan Sheehan | August 11, 2022

Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in <em>Get Out</em>

Elif Batuman on the Cult of Family in Get Out

This Week on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | August 11, 2022

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

Or, Finding the Line Between Art and Entertainment

By Megan Giddings | August 11, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Watch the earliest known detective film, featuring a very confused Sherlock Holmes.

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2022

How Novelists Create More “Realistic” Characters Than Those You See on the Screen

By Keen On | August 9, 2022

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a Vicious Parody of Online Culture and a Tight Little Murder Mystery

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 5, 2022

We’re getting a Keanu Reeves prestige TV series: Erik Larson’s <em>Devil in the White City</em>

We’re getting a Keanu Reeves prestige TV series: Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City

By Jonny Diamond | August 4, 2022

The spiritual sequel to <em>In Bruges</em> has arrived.

The spiritual sequel to In Bruges has arrived.

By Dan Sheehan | August 4, 2022

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s <em>The House of Mirth</em>

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

With Two Wharton Projects in the Works, What Can Be Learned from the Masterful 2000 Adaptation?

By Robert Stinner | August 4, 2022

Noah Baumbach's <em>White Noise</em> will open the 60th New York Film Festival.

Noah Baumbach's White Noise will open the 60th New York Film Festival.

By Dan Sheehan | August 2, 2022

The Exorcist.">The Exorcist.">

The Exorcist.">"It has absolutely nothing going for it, except Satan." Read James Baldwin on The Exorcist.

By Emily Temple | August 2, 2022

An ode to the grumpy writer in <em>The Princess Diaries</em>.

An ode to the grumpy writer in The Princess Diaries.

By Katie Yee | July 29, 2022

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

"The only thing that kept me going was stories."

By Emily Temple | July 29, 2022

« First‹ Previous313233343536373839Next ›Last »
Page 35 of 88
    • The Best Fiction in Translation of Fall 2025November 21, 2025 by Molly Odintz
    • “Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die": "Galaxy Quest" Is Personal, and it's Personal to MeNovember 21, 2025 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • Breaking In: A Field Guide to Heist Plot TypesNovember 21, 2025 by Norman Birnbach and Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
    • The Pelican Child: Stories
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"
  • 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