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
  • 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
  • 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
What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

On Neurochemistry, Lucia Berlin, and the Dangers of Empathy Loss

By Maryanne Wolf | August 8, 2018

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

From the Annals of Questionable Ideas in Medicine

By Mimi Swartz | August 3, 2018

What Does It Mean To Be A Doctor and a Writer?

What Does It Mean To Be A Doctor and a Writer?

Four Physician-Writers on Their Craft

By Literary Hub | July 23, 2018

Like a Miracle I Don't Want: An Essay by Amy Fusselman

Like a Miracle I Don't Want: An Essay by Amy Fusselman

"I Will Always and Forever be Standing in the Dark"

By Amy Fusselman | July 18, 2018

Why I Became an Abortion Clinic Escort at 50

Why I Became an Abortion Clinic Escort at 50

Wendy Rawlings on Volunteering at the West Alabama Women's Center

By Wendy Rawlings | July 11, 2018

Nadifa Mohamed: My Life at Oxford's Last All-Women College

Nadifa Mohamed: My Life at Oxford's Last All-Women College

What's Changed—and What Hasn't—Since the Turn of the Millenium

By Nadifa Mohamed | July 9, 2018

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

On the Sleepless Lives of Writers

By Nick Ripatrazone | June 26, 2018

The World is Too Loud: On Being a Writer with Misophonia

By Caoilinn Hughes | June 22, 2018

Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

By Porochista Khakpour | June 15, 2018

The Gig Economy: Lower Wages, More Injuries, Horrible Benefits

The Gig Economy: Lower Wages, More Injuries, Horrible Benefits

It's Worse Than You Think

By Sarah Kessler | June 14, 2018

Sitting with the Unknowable: On Suicide and Loss

Sitting with the Unknowable: On Suicide and Loss

Elissa Altman Considers Life in the Aftermath

By Elissa Altman | June 12, 2018

The Abortion Clinic That Wasn't

The Abortion Clinic That Wasn't

A First-Hand Account of the Anti-Choice Movement's Mass Deception

By Emily Heiden | June 7, 2018

14 Famous Writers on Whether or Not to Have Kids

14 Famous Writers on Whether or Not to Have Kids

Because Everybody Has an Opinion

By Emily Temple | June 6, 2018

On the Poetics of Fatness

On the Poetics of Fatness

Samantha Zighelboim: "The Language of Self-Denial is the First I Ever Learned"

By Samantha Zighelboim | June 1, 2018

Jane Austen's Practical Concerns About Marriage Are Still Relevant

Jane Austen's Practical Concerns About Marriage Are Still Relevant

Romance is Ideal, But Most of Us Are in Relationships for Other Reasons

By Kelli Maria Korducki | May 22, 2018

On the Fear, Responsibility, and Boredom of Motherhood

On the Fear, Responsibility, and Boredom of Motherhood

Gabriela Wiener: Children Are Like Annoying Tourists

By Gabriela Wiener | May 11, 2018

« First‹ Previous404142434445464748Next ›Last »
Page 44 of 48
    • 10 New Books Coming Out This WeekNovember 3, 2025 by CrimeReads
    • Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal ProfilingNovember 3, 2025 by Rachel Corbett
    • Crime and the City: Falkland IslandsNovember 3, 2025 by Paul French
    • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"
  • 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