• Literary Criticism

    Overlooked Women

    Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

    Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender

     
    By Emily Hauser  June 13, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 13, 2025
    Food Writing

    Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food

    By Mike Curato  June 13, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 12, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 12, 2025
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 12, 2025
    In Conversation

    The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

    By Terry McDonell  June 11, 2025
    Literary Adaptations

    On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

    By Kyra Davis Lurie  June 11, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

    The Author of “Everything Is Fine Here” Recalls a Seminal “This American Life” Episode

    By Iryn Tushabe  June 13, 2025
    Queer Literature

    A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

    By B. Pietras  June 10, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

    By Nan Z. Da  June 10, 2025
    Literary Parties

    Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

    By Jonathan Parks-Ramage  June 10, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    Featuring Geoff Dyer, Ivy Pochoda, Megan Giddings and More

    By Teddy Wayne  June 10, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 10, 2025
    On Race

    Bad Curls, Bad Character:
    The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

    By Sarah Gold McBride  June 9, 2025
    American Poetry

    On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

    By Susan Gubar  June 9, 2025
    Teenagers

    Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

    Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More

    By Miriam Gershow  June 9, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 6, 2025
    Family Stories

    Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

    By Susan Walter  June 6, 2025
    Nature Writing

    The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

    By Daegan Miller  June 5, 2025
    Publishing

    There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

    Maris Kreizman Will Never, Ever Catch Up on Her Reading

    By Maris Kreizman  June 5, 2025
    Joan Didion

    Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? On Notes to John and the Selling of Didion’s Privacy

    By Evelyn McDonnell  June 5, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 5, 2025
    Thresholds

    Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

    By Thresholds   June 11, 2025
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