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
  • Become A Member
  • 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
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize

Read Five of the Winning Stories

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2019

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Where Else Do Men of Letters Pal Around?

By Leo Damrosch | May 16, 2019

In a Refugee's No Man's Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

In a Refugee's No Man's Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

Pibulsak Lakonpol with a Dispatch from the Far North of Thailand

By Pibulsak Lakonpol | May 16, 2019

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2019

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

By Corinne Segal | May 15, 2019

Good for publishing, bad for our souls: Michael Wolff has written a sequel to <em>Fire and Fury</em>.

Good for publishing, bad for our souls: Michael Wolff has written a sequel to Fire and Fury.

By Emily Temple | May 15, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

Hungover and happy at Minnesota's new book festival, Wordplay.

By Ryan Chapman | May 15, 2019

Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

By Lacy M. Johnson | May 15, 2019

How Winona Ryder Took Girl, Interrupted From Page to Screen

By Rebecca Renner | May 15, 2019

Which Writers Have Won the Most Major Prizes?

Which Writers Have Won the Most Major Prizes?

A Ranking by the Most Absurd Metric

By Emily Temple | May 15, 2019

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

A City on the Edge

By Julia Flynn Siler | May 15, 2019

The Bay Area Book Festival in Three Acts

The Bay Area Book Festival in Three Acts

Jane Ciabattari Reports From the Best Fest in the West

By Jane Ciabattari | May 15, 2019

Gabriel García Márquez on<br> Life in 1950s Paris

Gabriel García Márquez on
Life in 1950s Paris

City of Light, City of Darkness

By Gabriel García Márquez | May 14, 2019

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

How to Reconstruct a Life with the Public Record

By David A. Taylor | May 14, 2019

Eve Ensler: Imagining an Apology From<br> My Abusive Father

Eve Ensler: Imagining an Apology From
My Abusive Father

the words to me."">"I am done waiting. My father is long dead. He will never say
the words to me."

By V (formerly Eve Ensler) | May 14, 2019

Do... Nothing? Maddie Crum on Myths of Self, Help,<br> and Self-Help

Do... Nothing? Maddie Crum on Myths of Self, Help,
and Self-Help

Let the Studied Indifference Flow Through You

By Maddie Crum | May 13, 2019

« First‹ Previous114311441145114611471148114911501151Next ›Last »
Page 1147 of 1377
    • Jacob Elordi will star in an adaptation of The Executioner's SongNovember 11, 2026 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • 9 great modern locked-room mysteries and thrillersNovember 11, 2026 by Laura Griffin
    • Carter Wilson on justice, manipulation, and why revenge thrillers are so satisfyingNovember 11, 2026 by Carter Wilson
    • Stations
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Extraordinary and indeed bittersweet There s a lived-in circumspection to Kennedy s work ennedy has…"
  • 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.