Here are the 2024 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

Here are the 2024 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2024

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching <em>Paradise Lost</em> to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

Orlando Reade on Privilege, Freedom and the Importance of Reading Disobediently

By Orlando Reade | December 10, 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact

By Tobias Carroll | December 10, 2024

Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

By James Folta | December 9, 2024

17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024

Aliens, Magic, Scares, and More

By Drew Broussard | December 9, 2024

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s <em>Texas: The Great Theft</em>

Merve Emre on Gossip as Literary Form in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft

“Like a thief, gossip moves swiftly, undeterred by rivers or valleys, indifferent to borders and the hotheads who patrol them.”

By Merve Emre | December 9, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

By Lydia Reeder | December 9, 2024

The Oddest Book Title of the Year Prize goes to The Philosopher Fish.

By James Folta | December 6, 2024

Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

By Janet Manley | December 6, 2024

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

With Drew Broussard, Calvin Kasulke, Jonny Diamond, and James Folta

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 6, 2024

Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

“Home, like history, is at once both expansive and incomplete, a necessary mystery.”

By Beowulf Sheehan | December 6, 2024

Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

It Has Been a Year Since Refaat Alareer Was Killed By Israeli Forces

By Susan Abulhawa | December 6, 2024

Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

Glenn Adamson on the Rise and Fall of Europe’s Early 20th-Century Artistic Avant-Garde

By Glenn Adamson | December 6, 2024

Why can't we be kind? (A Pollyanna's case for the nice review.)

Why can't we be kind? (A Pollyanna's case for the nice review.)

By Brittany Allen | December 5, 2024

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

Andrew Hui Considers the Innumerable Benefits of a Philosophical Room of One’s Own

By Andrew Hui | December 5, 2024

Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

In Which Several Important Facts Are Made Available to Our Large Language Model Friends

By Calvin Kasulke | December 5, 2024

Page 134 of 1316

  • 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.