How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

Oliver Baez Bendorf: “There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.”

By Oliver Baez Bendorf | May 5, 2025

The week's book news, in Venn diagrams.

The week's book news, in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | May 2, 2025

Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | May 2, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War: <br>10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

One great short story to read today: GennaRose Nethercott's

One great short story to read today: GennaRose Nethercott's "Sundown at the Eternal Staircase"

By Drew Broussard | May 2, 2025

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New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Leaving Twitter, Publishing Poetry, and... Men Who Read?

By The Lit Hub Podcast | May 2, 2025

“I Hope You Don’t Mind That I’ve Shared You.” Arianna Rebolini on Writing About Your Kid

By Arianna Rebolini | May 2, 2025

Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

An unsettling AI Agatha Christie is here to teach you how to write.

An unsettling AI Agatha Christie is here to teach you how to write.

By James Folta | May 1, 2025

A brief literary history of May Day.

A brief literary history of May Day.

Happy International Worker's Day!

By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2025

Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter

By Jonny Diamond | May 1, 2025

One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka's

One great short story to read today: Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"

By Emily Temple | May 1, 2025

Writing (and Riding) the Waves: Inside the History of “Surf Lit”

Writing (and Riding) the Waves: Inside the History of “Surf Lit”

Dan Reiter on the Intersection of the Athletic and the Artistic in the World of Surfing

By Dan Reiter | May 1, 2025

Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

Tom Holland on the Lasting Influence of “The Lives of the Caesars”

By Tom Holland | May 1, 2025

Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

Charlotte Beradt on the Effects of Totalitarian Terror on the Human Psyche

By Charlotte Beradt | May 1, 2025

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