Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

By Literary Hub | May 1, 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

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Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

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Zoe Roth Puts Charlotte Beradt’s “The Third Reich of Dreams” in the Context of Our Current Reality

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Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

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How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

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Thomas Levenson on the Dubious Yet Important Science of 17th-Century Medicine

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