It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring members of the Lit Hub staff on favorite reads of 2025!

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 12, 2025

How Sam Shepard Became the Star Playwright of New York’s Counterculture

How Sam Shepard Became the Star Playwright of New York’s Counterculture

Robert M. Dowling on the Early Years of a Genius of Avant-Garde American Drama

By Robert M. Dowling | December 12, 2025

Can We Really Claim That Civilization is on the Steady Path of Progress?

Can We Really Claim That Civilization is on the Steady Path of Progress?

Samuel Miller McDonald on Black Liberation, the Abolition of Slavery,
and the Myth of Progress

By Samuel Miller McDonald | December 12, 2025

Want to start a literary magazine? The original <em> Paris Review </em> offices are for sale.

Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale.

By Brittany Allen | December 11, 2025

Did Bob Cratchit really make more than an American on minimum wage?

Did Bob Cratchit really make more than an American on minimum wage?

By James Folta | December 11, 2025

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters

By Chris Cohen | December 11, 2025

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What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

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Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

From Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.

Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.

By James Folta | December 10, 2025

Three books to read if you too are rewatching <em> Mad Men. </em>

Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”

By Marion Winik | December 10, 2025

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