Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan review – a chef’s elegy to London
Amber Fan, the 22-year-old protagonist of Kit Fan’s heartfelt and elegiac second novel, is ready to say goodbye. Goodbye to her parents, who are...
The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland review – piercing essays on culture and creativity
In 1988, the late Ghanaian writer and filmmaker Kwesi Owusu edited Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts & Culture, a collection of...
Don’t Go There
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The Art of Frozen Desserts
Ice cream conjures up images of summer: cooling frozen pops from the ice cream truck, double scoop cones on the boardwalk or soft serve custard at a...
The Intrigue
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This Must Be the Place
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What Goes Into Tracking Censorship, With an Update From the New York Public Library Comms Team
What goes into creating a Literary Activism story? A lot of time, energy, and effort. Not every story about book censorship or library challenges...
Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature.
Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature. Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its second annual DAG Prizes, which...
Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die.
Salvador Dalí, El Mago, courtesy of Taschen, via Another Man Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die. In the...
The 2025 Shirley Jackson Award Winners
The 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Saturday night, July 11, at Readercon 35. The awards are presented to the best horror, dark...
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature
Once upon a Y2K, technology still felt like it could fulfill some human need: our drive for connection, perhaps, or just external recognition of our...
Lit Hub Daily: July 13, 2026
Lit Hub Daily: July 13, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - How cell phone novels became the iconic genre among young writers on the Y2k...
Best Books of the Year So Far, BIPOC Edition
A few weeks ago, one of our writers—Erika Hardison—moderated a panel discussion on the Black speculative tradition at the Schomburg in New York...
The Hardest and Easiest Tasks of the 2026 Read Harder Challenge
How many 2026 Read Harder Challenge tasks have you completed so far? There’s a pretty wide range of answers to this question, though the most common...
9 of the Most Adorable Animal Comics for Adult Readers
WEBTOON UnscrolledFor fans of modern romance and adorable animals. Opposites attract when Pam, recently dumped over her unruly dog Bob, finds an...
Oldies But Goodies: New Under-the-Radar Historical Romances
In my observation, the historical romance sections of most bookstores are severely lacking. You’ll see a bunch of Bridgerton novels, the Outlander...
American History Books for Kids to Read as the U.S. Turns 250
“Semiquincentennial” is a word likely to befuddle most kids. But there’s no doubt that the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of...
Mysteries and Thrillers Set at Amusement Parks & Summer Camps
Sunscreen is in the air, mosquitoes are annoyingly buzzing, and hopefully your AC is cranked to the max. That’s right, we are in the middle of...
“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley
I first started reading Grace Paley in the weeks after my second novel was published, as I sought refuge from refreshing Goodreads, from waiting for...
Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth
My edition of Élisabeth was written by a man called Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. The novel didn’t go far and eventually...
“The Rival”
It was winter when Laura left her husband without warning, and summer when she returned. A livid evening, fluorescent sunset; she was standing,...
When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer
For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some...
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter...
Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness
In the spring of 1983, the poet Eileen Myles went for a walk with their friend Tom in Manhattan. There was perhaps nothing remarkable about this...
The Brexit Effect, 2016-2026 edited by Anthony Seldon review – life without EU
This massive collection of essays by 43 different authors, including seven lords, four baronesses, one dame and three knights of the realm, may be...
The Anniversary by Andrea Bajani review – meet the wearily predictable parents
A son leaves home for university and goes on to pay fortnightly visits to his parents for 20 years, dreading every encounter because of the...
Forces collide in Nephi Craig’s powerful debut memoir
“When people say, ‘What’s food to you?’ ” says author and chef Nephi Craig, “I just say ‘It’s everything.’ . . . It’s who we are. It’s science,...
4 horror novels that honor female rage
Femme Feral Ellie is counting the days to her boss’s retirement, when he’ll finally hand over the reins of the meditation app company they built...
Our Knives Will Save Us
“Like every other Indigenous community in the United States, Whiteriver is a place steeped in tragedy, violence, and hardship,” author and chef...
Got a long summer reading list? NPR's Life Kit helps you keep pages turning
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Tom Gauld on bookshop offers – cartoon
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‘People treat each other as disposable’: dating columnist turned novelist Annie Lord on love and sex in the age of apps
There is a scene in Annie Lord’s novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who has spent time at a pub or nightclub recently. Daisy...
Why do free speech debates make us so angry?
In January 2015, two members of al-Qaida gunned down cartoonists at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for their publication...
‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey movie has all the hopes of a summer blockbuster pinned to it, and all the promise – as the trailers have showed – of...
Are we living through the end of reading?
Are we living through the end of reading? Are we living through the end of reading? Audio will be available later today. People are reading fewer...
Reader Question – The historical romance book where he uses his tartan to claim the heroine on his horse…
Sazi needs our book help! Okay I have two books that I remember precisely the Hero essentially kidnapping the heroine to claim her. One by Kristen...
250+ New LGBTQ Books Out in the Rest of 2026
A couple weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ queer books...
Lit Hub Weekly: July 6 – 10, 2026
Lit Hub Weekly: July 6 - 10, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1966, Delmore Schwartz dies. Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways...
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