June 16 – 20, 2025
- The semicolon is in decline
- Keith Woodhouse considers the future of climate fiction
- Aaron Rosenberg revisits The Inheritors
Support Lit Hub.
Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry
“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.”
James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Alexander Durie Considers the Evolution of Baldwin’s Views on Zionism
True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip
Natalia Olbinski on Creating the Cover for Ruby Todd’s “Bright Objects”
Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction
Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence
Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation with the Author of “On James Baldwin”
Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation
"In fiction, place is where the writer and reader first collaborate."
Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Stack your summer with new reads from Nalo Hopkinson, Madeline Ashby, Beth Revis, and more
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