Hernan Diaz explains why his new novel isn’t a dystopia: “Similar to Diaz’s debut In the Distance, his new work can feel like social theory masquerading as old school adventure. This is by design.” | Lit Hub In Conversation What
Hernan Diaz explains why his new novel isn’t a dystopia: “Similar to Diaz’s debut In the Distance, his new work can feel like social theory masquerading as old school adventure. This is by design.” | Lit Hub In Conversation What
“The spectral are getting louder, more insistent, more prevalent, and our literature, our cinema, reflect this.” Tara Badstubner explores why recent ghosts are (actually) haunting us. | Lit Hub Craft Watch Angela Flournoy discuss The Wilderness, class, the internet, and
After 26 years, Cyberselfish, Paulina Borsook’s prophetic look at big tech, is more relevant than ever. | Lit Hub Technology “To win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain movements, propelled by urgency, that move at a pace
During the season of big books, how do you choose one to read? With a flowchart, obviously. | Lit Hub “How can I give these aspiring writers a dose of reality without crushing their dreams?” Help: How can I be
Bilal Urick considers Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G, a “poetic meditation on language and time, the basic structural forces of life, stripped of stability under genocide.” | Lit Hub Criticism Laura Kolbe on the poetics of subverting linear time and the
“The audience is present even when no one else is in the room.” David Pakman examines just how far the need to perform for digital spectators has seeped into real life. | Lit Hub Technology Why we love the thrill
Ed Simon explores the limits of language to understand why “pain makes poor poets out of all of us.” | Lit Hub Criticism Carlo Rovelli warns against getting trapped in your own limited perspective of reality: “A child born in
When formal sex ed is insufficient, can romance novels pick up the slack? | Lit Hub Criticism Janet Manley interviews 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Winner Jon Klassen: “I think having kids just really reaffirmed the validity of that time
Who says nonfiction is in crisis? Maris Kreizman recommends 14 nonfiction titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Nadia Bowers and Stephanie Wittels Wachs discuss writing about the opioid crisis and losing
Who actually benefits in an MFA workshop? Devon Halliday explores why these spaces might need “a greater clarity of purpose.” | Lit Hub Craft The truth is out there! What UFO fanaticism reveals about American conspiracies. | Lit Hub Politics
Don’t have time to read all those fall reading lists? That’s okay. We read them for you. Here’s the Ultimate Fall Reading List. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Gabe Bullard explores the detrimental nature of convenience (after writing a book
Does your town need a bookstore? Maybe you should start one. | Lit Hub Bookstores John J. Lennon Talks to Harriet Clark, Author of The Hill, about writing real and imagined lives in and outside of prison. | Lit Hub
Where does Harlan Coben get ideas? “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” | Lit Hub Craft Phillip Lopate explores the lore and legacy of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” | Lit Hub Biography Steven W. Thrasher reads No God But Us
Stef Ferrari recommends incredibly earnest novels by Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists “The collection asks readers to consider what happens when the machinery of occupation turns inward, and what forms of resistance
“Language is something that is practiced and learned and something that you can be awful at, and also something that you can get better at. But the only way that you get better is by making mistakes.” R.F. Kuang talks
A new season means new books. Here are 34 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara about “the high stakes and complexities of translation,” complicated men, and her essay
Suzanne Roberts offers advice (and prompts!) for writing about sex. | Lit Hub Craft How does time actually work? Jim Al-Khalili explores the flow of physics. | Lit Hub Science These Latin American novels from the 1920s chronicled an era
How J.P. Donleavy‘s The Ginger Man clawed its way to press: “He maintained The Ginger Man, a serious work of fiction, was being misrepresented, damaging the book and its prospects and his reputation as a serious writer.” | Lit Hub Biography
Former political prisoner Abdelrahman ElGendy tells Samaa Khullar about writing from inside a cell. | Lit Hub In Conversation “I’d long noticed the discrepancies between my idealism and my pragmatism—between my desire for a fully accessible world and the realities
“Cormac asks what we think of the home so far, already knowing our answers.” Photographer Beowulf Sheehan remembers capturing Cormac McCarthy through a lens. | Lit Hub Photography What should your kids read in September? Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new
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