• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Elizabeth Gilbert, Sarah Moss, Stephen Greenblatt, and More

     
    By Book Marks  September 12, 2025
    Books

    The Joy of Reading Books About Books

    By Susan Coll  September 12, 2025
    On Poetry

    How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

    By Elaine L. Wang  September 11, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 11, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 11, 2025
    literary criticism

    On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

    By Nathaniel Moore  September 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Jane Austen

    What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

    By John Mullan  September 10, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

    By Beth Kephart  September 10, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell’s Troubles

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 10, 2025
    Women Writers

    Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

    Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

    By Christine Estima  September 12, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  September 9, 2025
    Craft

    The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

    By Alejandro Varela  September 9, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Taking Center Stage: Eight Novels That Celebrate Black Performance

    By Lauren Morrow  September 9, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Elizabeth Gilbert! Mick Herron! Sarah Moss! 24 new books out today.

    By Julia Hass  September 9, 2025
    Fall Books

    15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2025
    Reading Lists

    “Never Had a Dirty Book Done So Badly.” On Some Unlikely Books First Published with Viking

    By Paul Slovak  September 8, 2025
    Suicide

    Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

    By Sarah Adler  September 8, 2025
    Magical Thinking

    Breadcrumbs: Searching for Synchronicity, in Life and Literature

    Tara Yazdan Panah on Eve Babitz, Carl Jung, and Divinely Oriented Surprise

    By Tara Yazdan Panah  September 8, 2025
    Tennis

    Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

    By Thomas Swick  September 5, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 5, 2025
    Autofiction

    Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

    By Brian Robert Moore  September 5, 2025
    On Writing

    On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

    Leila Chatti Wrestles With the Daily Idea of Being a Writer

    By Leila Chatti  September 5, 2025
    Jane Austen

    The (Almost) Wildness of Elizabeth Bennet

    By Devoney Looser  September 4, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 4, 2025
    Rereadings

    Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

    By Rachel Kushner  September 9, 2025
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