• Literary Criticism

    Ghosts!

    Seeing Life Through the Eyes of the Dead: A Short Handbook for Writing Ghosts

    By Muriel Leung  December 5, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Carvell Wallace on Love, Survival, and Endings

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2024
    Inspiration

    Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

    By Kristie Frederick Daugherty  December 4, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

    By John Brandon  December 4, 2024
    Surrealism

    The Craft of Surrealism: On Accessing the Unconscious in Our Fiction

    By Anita Felicelli  December 4, 2024
    Experimental Fiction

    Rumors of Mark Leyner’s Disappearance Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    By Adam Sternbergh  December 4, 2024
    Best Books of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024

    By Emily Temple  December 3, 2024
    On Reading

    Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

    By Angela Baggetta  December 3, 2024
    ChatGPT

    On the Report of Poetry’s Death, or: What Does That AI Poetry Study Really Tell Us?

    By Jen Benka  December 3, 2024
    Queer Sex

    Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 3, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anita Felicelli on Crafting a Collection of Existential Speculative Short Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 3, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Gay Talese! Gabrielle Korn! Poets respond to Taylor Swift 23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 3, 2024
    Children's Literature

    Ten Children’s Books To Read and Enjoy Before The Year Ends

    By Caroline Carlson  December 2, 2024
    Italian Literature

    A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy

    By Michael Palma  December 2, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Musical Mechas and the Dystopian Dust Bowl: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  December 2, 2024
    Poetry

    Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year

    By David Woo  December 2, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Fund Drives, Merve Emre, and… Do Awards Even Matter?

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 29, 2024
    Interviews

    Writing Advice, Book Recommendations, and More from the Newest Literary MacArthur Fellows

    By Emily Temple  November 27, 2024
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd Women

    By Literary Hub  November 27, 2024
    In Conversation

    Juhea Kim on Rendering the Beauty of Ballet in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 26, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Orhan Pamuk! Birth control in America! A history of beer! 11 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 26, 2024
    In Conversation

    Werner Herzog on Memory, the Elusiveness of Truth, and Sleepwalking Into New Wars

    By Aysegul Sert  November 25, 2024
    On Reading

    In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

    By Ed Simon  November 25, 2024
    Palestine

    What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

    By Aaron Boehmer  November 25, 2024
    Palestine

    On the Enduring Importance of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine

    By Alexander Durie  November 25, 2024
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