This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention
Plus: Ryan Chapman Calls in About the Booker Prize Winner
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Richard Price, Joan Didion & Eve Babitz, Katherine Rundell, and More
Adrian Tomine on Building a Creative Career
"It’s important for aspiring artists to be honest with themselves and really think about what they’re aiming for."
Deadly Sins and Heavenly Virtues: On the Timeless Duality of Being Human
Ed Simon Explores the Ways in Which Good and Evil Have Manifested Throughout the Ages
“Are We Lost?” How Ancient Cultures Across the Globe Found Their Way Around
Jerry Brotton on the Diverse Origins of the Language of Cardinal Directions
Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read
Dorsía Smith Silva Recommends Craig Santos Perez, Juliana Spahr, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and More
Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“This savage American novel consumed me, as much as I consumed it.”
My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
Benjamin Franklin: As Much Scientist As Statesman
Richard Munson Considers the Founding Father’s Long-Overlooked Passion for Scientific Inquiry
Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories
Padma Viswanathan Imagines Radically Different Paths Her Life Could Have Taken
The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Susan Stewart, Taban Lo Liyong, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, and Others
“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself
Olivia A. Cole on Representation, Parenthood and the Power of Children’s Literature
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