All Shirley Jackson Award finalists get stoned.

All Shirley Jackson Award finalists get stoned.

By Dan Sheehan | February 14, 2023

Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

The History of, the Study of, the Writing of, and Just Doing It

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2023

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders How Literary Couples Make It Work

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 14, 2023

Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine's Day

Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine's Day

The Art of the Hand-Sell: Love Stories

By Katie Yee | February 14, 2023

On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

Stephen Marche Considers the Long Tail of Tom Scocca’s “On Smarm”

By Stephen Marche | February 14, 2023

H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

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Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

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Amy Marie Spangler on loss, grief, and anger after the earthquake in Turkey.

By Amy Marie Spangler | February 13, 2023

Here are the finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize.

By Emily Temple | February 13, 2023

Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Lydia Kiesling's <em>Mobility</em>.

Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Lydia Kiesling's Mobility.

By Literary Hub | February 13, 2023

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Leigh Stein Wonders Why More Book People Don’t Embrace the Publishing Juggernaut

By Leigh Stein | February 13, 2023

Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

In Which Barthelme’s Story, “The Balloon,” Gets a Very Close Reading

By Ann Beattie | February 13, 2023

10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named <em>Get Out</em>

10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named Get Out

Films That Dared to “Go There”... with Varying Degrees of Success

By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris | February 13, 2023

Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

Nona Fernández on the Constellations We Create With Our Memories

“Light from the past illuminates our present.”

By Nona Fernández | February 13, 2023

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 13, 2023

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