Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

By Joshua Sperling | November 26, 2018

It's Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

It's Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

Richard Beard on a Family's Denial and the Fragments of Memory

By Richard Beard | November 26, 2018

How Do You Make Art From Walking and Looking?

How Do You Make Art From Walking and Looking?

Hal Foster Talks to Richard Serra About Sites, Non-Sites, and Mobile Bodies

By Hal Foster and Richard Serra | November 26, 2018

32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

They Just Don't Make Covers Like They Used To

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2018

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

Kristen Arnett Has Learned Patience (and Some Other Things)

By Kristen Arnett | November 21, 2018

Grief and Recovery in Thousand Oaks

Grief and Recovery in Thousand Oaks

Liska Jacobs on Her Hometown's Navigation of Dual Tragedies

By Liska Jacobs | November 21, 2018

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

Not Just a German Word: A Brief History of Schadenfreude

By Tiffany Watt Smith | November 21, 2018

On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé's Sexual Politics

By Omise'eke Tinsley | November 21, 2018

The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

By Halldór Guðmundsson | November 21, 2018

Thinking Outside the Windowboxes: At the Nantucket Book Festival

Thinking Outside the Windowboxes: At the Nantucket Book Festival

Bethanne Patrick Reports from an Island Literary Festival

By Bethanne Patrick | November 21, 2018

Here It Is! Alice B. Toklas's Recipe for Hash Brownies

Here It Is! Alice B. Toklas's Recipe for Hash Brownies

If You Really Want to Help Out in the Kitchen This Week

By Emily Temple | November 20, 2018

Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

From Human Skulls to the "Milk of Human Kindness"

By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall | November 20, 2018

On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

The Art of Fictionalizing a Life, from H.G. Wells to Henry James

By Bethany Layne and David Lodge | November 20, 2018

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

Dark Constellations Imagines a Dystopia That Might Already Be Here

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2018

The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

Mikita Brottman on the Protocols and Pitfalls of Dealing with a Body

By Mikita Brottman | November 20, 2018

On the Manufactured

On the Manufactured "Sex Appeal" of Vladimir Putin

Lara Vapnyar Has Some Thoughts on Russia's Brutal, Bear-Wrestling "Husband"

By Lara Vapnyar | November 20, 2018

Page 1136 of 1331

  • 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

    • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.