Spend your summer reading with Lit Hub! Welcome to the Best of the Best Books reading challenge, where you’ll have the chance to meet your reading goals, win prizes, and prove you’re better than your friends! | Lit Hub How
Spend your summer reading with Lit Hub! Welcome to the Best of the Best Books reading challenge, where you’ll have the chance to meet your reading goals, win prizes, and prove you’re better than your friends! | Lit Hub How
Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft Thomas Asbridge considers the influence of religion
What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe, literary icon. | Lit Hub Biography
Everyone is an AI cop now, even if they don’t know it: a past Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner weighs in on the recent scandal. | Lit Hub Criticism Does Xi Jinping really think China is Athens and the US
Katherine Packert Burke considers eight different attempts at explaining the purpose of trans literature. | Lit Hub Criticism Why you shouldn’t feel guilty about the books you haven’t read. | Lit Hub Craft On the new podcast Passages: On Morrison
Everyone’s talking about Salome right now, and Leslie Baird has some answers about why. | Lit Hub Politics How the critical approaches outlined in George Saunders’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain can apply to audio narratives, too. |
“I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub “It
Here are 15 great gifts for the graduating English major in your life. | Lit Hub Katherine Kelaidis explains why you should be reading Russian dissident literature. | Lit Hub Criticism How ’70’s soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman made
Max Pearl gets to know Stacey Levine, author of the “deeply weird” small press Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mice 1961. | Lit Hub Criticism Adrian McKinty reads Dan Simmons’s take on The Canterbury Tales, “a book for shy sci-fi nerds who
Lessons in living in the Anthropocene (from the world’s most pessimistic climate writer). | Lit Hub Criticism Dear Hollywood: please stop hot-washing your literary adaptations. | Lit Hub On Anthony the Turk and Grietje, the larger-than-life, 17th-century Manhattan couple who
“Primo Levi didn’t know why he deserved to survive: why him, rather than someone else?” On Primo Levi’s translation of Kafka after Auschwitz. | Lit Hub Criticism Lucy Sante recommends books about memory by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald
“The waxing and waning fortunes of languages are inevitably historical and political questions, and these questions are likewise delirium-inducing if we sit with them honestly.” The benefits of being a polyglot (as a fiction writer). | Lit Hub Craft Lori
Lilian Pizzichini searches for the Elsa Schiaparelli dress from Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. | Lit Hub Art “In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very old human narrative tradition rooted in
Irene Zabytko recounts reimagining The Canterbury Tales in post-Soviet Ukraine. | Lit Hub Craft What our Google searches reveal about humanity and grief. | Lit Hub Technology Think it’s hard to write stories for adults? Try writing stories for children.
Sarah Moroz considers “the poignant sibling renaissance” of Ocean Vuong’s first photography exhibition. | Lit Hub Photography Davin Malasarn and Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez talk about writing books that explore questions of family, queer identity, and the violence of conversion therapy.
Mothman is My Boyfriend author McKayla Coyle wants to settle it once and for all: Who’s the best monster in (contemporary) literature? | Lit Hub Reading Lists What scientific mediocrity taught Vincent Yu about writing novels. | Lit Hub Craft
“It is absurd that people who look and pray like me and my cousins and uncles, with hearts that could fit in my chest, will die today from bombs forged and dropped by my tax dollars.” Kaveh Akbar considers genocide
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