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Seven novels to read if you’re obsessed with Elif Batuman. A reading list for The Idiot in all of us. What is it about the campus novel? Even for...
Dissenting opinion: Why Emerald Fennell’s 'Wuthering Heights' is good, actually. I mean no disrespect to my estimable colleagues who’ve done the...
Have we been reading Toni Morrison all wrong?Harvard professor Namwali Serpell has been teaching Morrison for nearly two decades. Her book, On...
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own imprint and publish books by the likes of Russell Brand and “alt-right” commentator...
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What happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or their message, than their prose? Plot and message have this much in common: they travel...
Lit Hub Daily: April 13, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1891, Nella Larsen is born. Calling all cinephiles! Vote in our bracket to...
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. With Beverly Cleary’s birthday coming...
Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It turns fifty this year. Its author was a retired English professor from the University of Chicago who, at...
On Writing the Hard Truths of Rural American Life For Jennifer Acker, Money Troubles Are As Much a Part of Farming As the Weather When I was growing...
If you’re a Lit Hub reader, there’s a good chance you have a few opinions about literary adaptations. Some are great. Many are bad. Others are...
This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London “It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you...
I’m sitting in a Hitchcock-themed bar on a first date with the man who would become my husband, and we’re both acting strangely. I’d shown up late...
Philip Owens is buried in a war cemetery near Athens, Greece. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having died on the tenth of...
When I was a small child, five or six years old, I accompanied my mother to a gathering at the home of one of her friends. I amused myself with the...
One great poem to read today: Tim Dlugos’s “Shelley Winters” This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the...
These were the murky effects: a dark yellow sky – like iodine – and brownish clouds, mounted in flat, extravagant, painterly puffs. On Southwark...
Rich Benjamin on Writing From Before You Were Born From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner Memoir Nation: Weekly...
Kate Schatz on Having an Agenda In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show...
This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Antony Sher in the six months before his death from liver cancer...
Fans of bestselling author Sara Pennypacker’s beloved Pax will be mesmerized by The Lion’s Run, a marvelous work of historical fiction that also...
The Queen’s Granddaughter, Diane Zahler’s account of nonstop adventure set in the 12th century, is middle grade historical fiction at its finest....
Inbetweens is a phenomenal graphic novel about trying to find one’s passion in life and dealing with a variety of roadblocks. Prolific...
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Author Interviews Caro Claire Burke discusses her debut novel 'Yesteryear' April 12, 20268:46 AM ET Ayesha Rascoe NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with...
In 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage...
Are straight male writers scared of writing about sex? If you read modern fiction it’s hard to conclude otherwise. Maybe we’re worried that the very...
Book Deals Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 12, 2026 An Indigenous psychological thriller, a book from the world of WICKED, a fantastical race...
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Every month, there’s a flood of new books coming out clamoring for a spot on your TBR. But with so many competing for your attention, it’s easy to...
Lit Hub Weekly: April 6 - 10, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1935, Anna Katharine Green, “mother of the detective novel,” dies. On...
The news about reading in general, and childhood reading in particular, is not good. Last year a National Literacy Trust survey of more than 100,000...
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