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
  • 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
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • 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
  • 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
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
The Excruciating Decision to<br> End a Cat’s Life

The Excruciating Decision to
End a Cat’s Life

Martha Cooley on Bohumil Hrabal, Stevie Smith, and the
Death of Her Cat Zora

By Martha Cooley | April 21, 2021

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

Khalisa Rae Considers What It Means to Write in the “Southern Tradition”

By Khalisa Rae | April 21, 2021

Introducing Our New Film Podcast, <em>Open Form</em>

Introducing Our New Film Podcast, Open Form

Hosted by Mychal Denzel Smith

By Open Form | April 21, 2021

How Democratic Senator Mazie K. Hirono Became a Fierce Advocate for Women and Children

How Democratic Senator Mazie K. Hirono Became a Fierce Advocate for Women and Children

Recounting the Path of the First Asian American Woman and the Only Immigrant Serving in the US Senate

By Mazie K. Hirono | April 21, 2021

The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

Maryanne O'Hara on Finding Truth in the Wake of Her Daughter's Death

By Maryanne O'Hara | April 21, 2021

Native Spaces: Tracing the History of California Indians and Sacred Land

Native Spaces: Tracing the History of California Indians and Sacred Land

Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr. on the Huchiun Ohlone People of the East Bay

By Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr. | April 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: If You’re Going to Cut Down Forests, Have the Decency to Name What You Destroy

By Thresholds | April 21, 2021

What Parents Do Differently With a Second Child

By Lynn Berger | April 21, 2021

On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature

By Kyra Wilder | April 21, 2021

Mission Creek Duos:<br > A Performance by Billy Dean Thomas

Mission Creek Duos:
A Performance by Billy Dean Thomas

A Virtual Sample of One of America's Great Arts Festivals

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 21, 2021

On

On "Wokeness" and Meritocracy in the Ivy League

Blake Smith in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 21, 2021

This bucolic 1946 newsreel about Daphne Du Maurier could also be the beginning of a horror film.

This bucolic 1946 newsreel about Daphne Du Maurier could also be the beginning of a horror film.

By Dan Sheehan | April 20, 2021

Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s <em>Persuasion</em>.

Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

Simon & Schuster workers are protesting their employer’s publishing decisions.

Simon & Schuster workers are protesting their employer’s publishing decisions.

By Jonny Diamond | April 20, 2021

How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game

How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game

J. Robert Lennon on Finding a Home Away From Home in Fallout 76

By J. Robert Lennon | April 20, 2021

« First‹ Previous542543544545546547548549550Next ›Last »
Page 546 of 1017
    • The Ghosts of Inch BeachOctober 29, 2025 by Carlene O'Connor
    • Raising the Devil: Parenting, Control, and Horror Fiction’s Obsession with Sinister ChildrenOctober 29, 2025 by Brian Asman
    • Predators On and Off the Page: Noelle Ilhi on Writing about Assault in Crime FictionOctober 29, 2025 by Noelle Ihli
    • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"
  • 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