Why do we love it when a new bombshell enters the villa? Anna Peele explores the eternal pantomime of Love Island. | Lit Hub TV William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, “A Novel Without a Hero,” is more relevant than ever. | Lit
Why do we love it when a new bombshell enters the villa? Anna Peele explores the eternal pantomime of Love Island. | Lit Hub TV William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, “A Novel Without a Hero,” is more relevant than ever. | Lit
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How Jane Austen subverted the kind of romance she mastered by writing Emma. | Lit Hub Criticism Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways women writers arrange the balance between creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft Why do our public
How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary internet, examines “the dispiriting effects of technology on contemporary life” in her new collection, The Frenzy. | Lit Hub Criticism Bryan Charles follows AI’s slow, steady invasion of literary translation. | Lit Hub
Michael Dirda makes the case for Moby-Dick as the ultimate American novel. | Lit Hub Criticism Why the “legendary” dinner party from Plato’s Symposium is actually about love. | Lit Hub Craft How medieval scribes engaged in writing as a spiritual
Why the Frederick Douglass speech we should revisit this July 4th isn’t the obvious one. | Lit Hub History These 10 great children’s books out in July include new work from Jaque Jours, Celeste Pewter, Sumayyah Beck and more. |
Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists We’re begging you to let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt The Bell Jar. | Lit Hub Film Why Soledad