What did Charles Darwin draw inspiration from? Orchids, of course. | Lit Hub Science On the surprising sensitivity and perceptiveness of plants. | Lit Hub Nature “Something is off in J. D. Vance’s new memoir.” 5 book reviews you need
What did Charles Darwin draw inspiration from? Orchids, of course. | Lit Hub Science On the surprising sensitivity and perceptiveness of plants. | Lit Hub Nature “Something is off in J. D. Vance’s new memoir.” 5 book reviews you need
How environmentalism shows up in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism “The vast majority of contemporary literature is not in fact published but submitted.” On publishing, careerism, and Laura McGrath’s Middlemen. | Lit Hub Craft How the tragedy
What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV Florence Hazrat explores the surprisingly controversial history of the parenthesis. | Lit Hub History Edwidge Danticat tells us why she
What did Jodi Picoult decide she needed to commemorate turning 60 and writing 30 novels? A tattoo. | Lit Hub Craft Steven W. Thrasher explores what we can learn about solidarity from Greg Tate’s recently reissued Flyboy in the Buttermilk.
“We were trapped within a single moment: always in danger, always waiting, and always struggling to survive.” Husam Maarouf on why he founded Gaza Publications.| Lit Hub How following Octavia Butler’s advice guided Clarence A. Haynes to write a novel.
S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space. | The Hub “The truth about Life of M is
When a wealthy university donor can silence one of the world’s leading genocide scholars, it exposes the problem with for-profit higher education. | Lit Hub Politics The best way to get people interested in your lit mag? Mail them free
Despite what some people might think, the short story is here to stay. | Lit Hub Criticism Téa Obreht talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing Sunrise: “I’m fascinated with the Western as a genre, as theatre, as propaganda, as a
On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they still choose profit. | Lit Hub Climate
Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Black punk scene. | Lit Hub Music
Why later in life is maybe the perfect time to read ancient classics (and why it’s never too late to love art for art’s sake). | Lit Hub Criticism Finding unexpected inspiration while writing from Ted Hughes’s childhood home: “The
Maybe you just need a writing date with Rumpelstiltskin. | Lit Hub Craft On Etna, The Call of the Wild, and the enduring appear of the canine narrator. | Lit Hub Criticism Here are ten great nonfiction titles to read
Why mothers with babies are the ultimate flâneurs, even if “there aren’t a lot of mother-flâneurs in literature.” | Lit Hub Craft Tracy Borman recommends books by C.J. Sansom, Hilary Mantel, Stephen Alford and more to shape your Tudor obsession. |
Carly Mattox considers Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age and reckons with the long literary history of age gap relationships. | Lit Hub Criticism What should your kids read this August? Try one of these 10 new children’s books. | Lit Hub
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