This week, the Cleveland Foundation announced the ten finalists for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which honor “books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” This is Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote about their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Calvin wrote about suburban ennui, the villain of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and more. The suburban ennui that was felled Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote an ode to their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Dan on Frankenstein’s Monster, from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, Lit Hub staffers wrote a bit about their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Dwyer on Tom Ripley, from The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, and more. I think we Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote a bit about their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s James on Karla, who first appears in John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In hindsight, Karla Read more >
Today, Aspen Words announced its five finalists for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 each year to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote about their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Brittany on Miss Trunchbull from Matilda. Roald Dahl never met an authority figure he could like. If his canon Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
Ten years ago this month, Hanya Yanagihara threw a wrench in the literary world with the publication of her Dickensian doorstop, A Little Life. Featuring four queer men growing up and together in New York high society—and also, many grim Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote about their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Jessie wrote about the bad boss from Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab. A thought exercise: Which tech company founder would most plausibly Read more >
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Read more >
March marches on, and though the month has just begun, it already, perhaps unsurprisingly, feels like many months of compressed time, if not more, days darkly alchemized into eons by so much political chaos. Still, there are always bright spots, Read more >
[As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the following to a faculty list serve there. It has been lightly Read more >
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote a little bit on their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Emily on Woland from Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Despite the fact that you (monsters) Read more >
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