Five Books Making News This Week: D.C., The Internet, and Helen Gurley Brown

Five Books Making News This Week: D.C., The Internet, and Helen Gurley Brown

Jennifer Close, Virginia Heffernan, Brooke Hauser, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | July 19, 2016

Maggie's Plan

Maggie's Plan

Rebecca Miller

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 18, 2016

When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter

When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter

Sven Birkerts on Contradiction and Tweeting Against the Tide

By Sven Birkerts | July 18, 2016

10 Classics of Campaign Literature

10 Classics of Campaign Literature

American Politics Has Always Been a Contact Sport

By Ed Simon | July 18, 2016

Brief History of a Terror Attack: The Day That Changed Argentina

Brief History of a Terror Attack: The Day That Changed Argentina

Ilan Stavans on the 1994 Bombing of the AMIA

By Ilan Stavans | July 18, 2016

On Sexism in Literary Prize Culture

On Sexism in Literary Prize Culture

Men’s writing is just writing and everything else is a sub-classification

By Natalie Kon-yu | July 15, 2016

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

I Squatted James Baldwin's House in Order to Save It

By Shannon Cain | July 14, 2016

Building a Better Definition of Science Fiction

By Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer | July 14, 2016

"Why Not Use This Moment to Celebrate Writers of Color?"

By Ben H. Winters | July 13, 2016

Starting Your Own Religion Is Actually Pretty Easy

Starting Your Own Religion Is Actually Pretty Easy

Elizabeth Kelly Offers a Few Tips on Founding a Fictional Church

By Elizabeth Kelly | July 13, 2016

Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

On the Crimes of William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese

By Nick Foster | July 13, 2016

In the Wilds of Utah, For Research

In the Wilds of Utah, For Research

Alexandra Oliva on Killing the Meat You Eat, and Taking Comfort for Granted

By Alexandra Oliva | July 12, 2016

What Happens When You Break Into America's Nuclear Bomb Factory

What Happens When You Break Into America's Nuclear Bomb Factory

On Hearing the Lord's Call to Turn Swords Into Ploughshares

By Dan Zak | July 12, 2016

I Think I Will Get Hung, but I Don't Care As Long As I Get Breakfast

I Think I Will Get Hung, but I Don't Care As Long As I Get Breakfast

The Victorian Tale of a 13-Year-Old Boy Who Murdered His Mum

By Kate Summerscale | July 12, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: First Books, Finland, and a 50th Aniversary

Five Books Making News This Week: First Books, Finland, and a 50th Aniversary

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Anu Partanen, Jacqueline Susann, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | July 12, 2016

When Marcel Proust Was an Anxious Debut Novelist

When Marcel Proust Was an Anxious Debut Novelist

On the Launch of In Search of Lost Time

By William C. Carter | July 11, 2016

Page 979 of 1027

  • 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