If You Want to Understand the Enduring Appeal of Wuthering Heights, Read This Book There is a meme circling online asking whether you’re an Emily Brontë or a Charlotte Brontë person. Every thirteen-year-old girl must decide, according to the post, with the implication that the way you answer that question at thirteen will determine

If You Want to Understand the Enduring Appeal of Wuthering Heights, Read This Book: There is a meme circling online asking whether you’re an Emily Brontë or a Charlotte Brontë person. Every thirteen-year-old girl must decide, according to the post, with the… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Letter From Minnesota: The Sun Will Rise Again If you want a pair of shoes made, you don’t begin by studying the leather. You look first at the shoes the shoemaker is wearing. We measure character by example, not by words. That is how I learned to understand

Letter From Minnesota: The Sun Will Rise Again: If you want a pair of shoes made, you don’t begin by studying the leather. You look first at the shoes the shoemaker is wearing. We measure character by example, not by words. That is how I learned to understand #FullwidthSlider #Politics

Letter From Minnesota: This is Actually What’s Great About America After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a spotlight immediately glared upon the Japanese community. My Japanese American parents were ten and fourteen; for months their families lived in fear of what might happen to them. Their

Letter From Minnesota: This is Actually What’s Great About America: After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a spotlight immediately glared upon the Japanese community. My Japanese American parents were ten and fourteen; for months their families lived in fear… #FullwidthSlider #Politics

Letter From Minnesota: “A Prayer Must Be More Than Asking” I would like to speak here briefly about car bombs, because I have seen one once, and I never want to see one again. A car, when detonated, becomes a scorched knot of metal, jagged with the last of its

Letter From Minnesota: “A Prayer Must Be More Than Asking”: I would like to speak here briefly about car bombs, because I have seen one once, and I never want to see one again. A car, when detonated, becomes a scorched knot of metal, jagged with the last of its #FullwidthSlider #Politics

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers finding his work through movies rather than university English departments. Throughout

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time: Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as fast as I

Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”: Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as fast as I #FullwidthSlider #Memoir

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America? Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Children and their families have been

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?: Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul.… #FullwidthSlider #Politics

George Saunders on Creating His Own Version of the Afterlife Those who are regular readers of George Saunders’ Story Club Substack were in for a treat on the tenth of December 2025 (a date chosen in honor of his story collection, a National Book Award finalist and Story Prize winner).

George Saunders on Creating His Own Version of the Afterlife: Those who are regular readers of George Saunders’ Story Club Substack were in for a treat on the tenth of December 2025 (a date chosen in honor of his story collection, a National Book Award finalist… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade This year at Literary Hub, we published the tenth iteration of a fan favorite end of year list: the best book covers of the year, as chosen by some of our favorite book cover designers. This feature was one of

The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade: This year at Literary Hub, we published the tenth iteration of a fan favorite end of year list: the best book covers of the year, as chosen by some of our favorite book cover designers. This feature was one of #Design #FullwidthSlider

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books, and a lot of them will be good.

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026: After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books, and a lot of them will be good. #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Zohran Mamdani Understands the Precarity of Middle Class American Life “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” the newly elected Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani said, in his invigorating inauguration speech yesterday, that praised ordinary New Yorkers. Mamdani’s speech, like his wildly successful

Zohran Mamdani Understands the Precarity of Middle Class American Life: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” the newly elected Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani said, in his invigorating inauguration speech yesterday,… #FullwidthSlider #Politics

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year In 2025, we were surviving, if perhaps not always thriving. We sang along to “Golden” in the grocery store and hung Labubus from our bags. We reheated nachos. We saw Sinners in multiple formats and got our first American pope.

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: In 2025, we were surviving, if perhaps not always thriving. We sang along to “Golden” in the grocery store and hung Labubus from our bags. We reheated nachos. We saw Sinners in multiple formats and got our first American pope. #BookNews #FullwidthSlider

How a Czech Writers’ Manifesto From the 1970s Applies to America in 2025 The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in the concentration camp at Terezin as a

How a Czech Writers’ Manifesto From the 1970s Applies to America in 2025: The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in… #FullwidthSlider #History

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail) In the early days of September, at a more gentle time before the government shutdown, President Trump ordered the removal of “corrosive ideology” from all national parks, by which he meant all signage and displays that refer to racism, slavery,

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail): In the early days of September, at a more gentle time before the government shutdown, President Trump ordered the removal of “corrosive ideology” from all national parks, by… #FullwidthSlider #History

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai? My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine months, the maximum length

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?: My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers finding his work through movies rather than university English departments. Throughout

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time: Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List It may still be in the 70s in New York, but autumn, they assure me, approaches. This means it’s time for Literary Hub’s annual Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which (in case you’re new) I read all (or at least many) of the seasonal literary recommendation/anticipation/best of lists on the internet, and then collate them […]

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List: It may still be in the 70s in New York, but autumn, they assure me, approaches. This means it’s time for Literary Hub’s annual Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which (in case you’re new) I read all (or at least many) of the… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests We’re about to leave the little island in Croatia not far from the border with Montenegro to make our way to Belgrade. There are peacocks everywhere on this island, hundreds of them, maybe thousands, towing their long blue and green tails behind them. In some places on the forest paths we can’t get past the […]

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests: We’re about to leave the little island in Croatia not far from the border with Montenegro to make our way to Belgrade. There are peacocks everywhere on this island, hundreds of them, maybe thousands,… #FullwidthSlider #Memoir

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River, Sarah Moss’s Ripeness, and Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1. Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz (Deem Vellum) 5 Rave • 2 Positive • 1 Mixed […]

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week: Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River, Sarah Moss’s Ripeness, and Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall The weather is changing (well, sort of), the pumpkin spice lattes are beckoning, the kids are back in school, all of which clearly indicates that it’s big book season yet again. And hey, we might not be able to read fast enough to outrun the reality of 2025, but we can try. Here are some […]

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall: The weather is changing (well, sort of), the pumpkin spice lattes are beckoning, the kids are back in school, all of which clearly indicates that it’s big book season yet again. And hey, we might not be able to read fast… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To […]

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September: Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well,… #FilmandTV #FullwidthSlider

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina’s Kiss all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1. Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, trans. by Srinath Perur (McNally Editions) 6 Rave […]

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina’s Kiss all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two Time keeps on slippin’ into the future, and the books keep right on coming, no matter what’s going on outside. Want to fly like an eagle? Already finished everything on this list? Check out the books the Literary Hub staff is most looking forward to reading in the back half of 2025 below, and get […]

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two: Time keeps on slippin’ into the future, and the books keep right on coming, no matter what’s going on outside. Want to fly like an eagle? Already finished everything on this list? Check out the books the… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

“The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens When Carrie & Lowell was first released in 2015, I was still in grad school at NYU, trying to finish what would become my first book of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I remember listening to the album while walking around Greenwich Village, down 11th street towards 5th avenue, then back towards 6th via […]

“The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens: When Carrie & Lowell was first released in 2015, I was still in grad school at NYU, trying to finish what would become my first book of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I remember listening to the album… #FullwidthSlider #Memoir

75 Years Ago, The Martian Chronicles Legitimized Science Fiction “I recall Midwestern summer nights, standing on my grandparents’ hushed lawn,” Ray Bradbury told me in 2010, “and looking up at the sky at the confetti field of stars. There were millions of suns out there, and millions of planets rotating around those suns. And I knew there was life out there, in the great […]

75 Years Ago, The Martian Chronicles Legitimized Science Fiction: “I recall Midwestern summer nights, standing on my grandparents’ hushed lawn,” Ray Bradbury told me in 2010, “and looking up at the sky at the confetti field of stars. There were millions of suns… #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: And The Winner Is…: The thrilling conclusion to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best… https://lithub.com/t #Features #FullwidthSlider

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Round of 32 Assholes: Welcome to the second round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket:… https://lithub.com/t #Features #FullwidthSlider

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Welcome to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. Everyone loves a good… https://lithub.com/t #CraftandCriticism #FullwidthSlider