Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

The genre is often used as a punchline, but sneering at ska discounts its long and uplifting history as “the people’s music.”

This might just be the most cynical—and thus true-to-life—entry in the Woman With a Magazine Job canon.

Yesterday, workers at the University of Chicago Press announced a plan to unionize. As Publishers Weekly reported, the UCP Workers Guild would be the first union in the nonprofit publisher’s …

This weekend, the Park Avenue Armory plays host to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair—i.e., Mecca, for a certain type of bibliophile. At the press preview, I’m conspicuously underdressed, hav…

<i>Slam Frank</i> and Musical Theater’s <i>Hamilton</i> Bind

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 frankly offensive (Ghibli’s Earthsea, I’m looking at y…

If you’ve talked to me in the last couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt heard me gush about Satyajit Ray’s exquisite Days and Nights in the Forest, a funny and touching Bengali language Indian film tha…

“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

Owned by author Louise Erdrich, Birchbark Books is a full range bookstore specializing in Indigenous American books, arts & gifts. Our books are lovingly chosen. Our store is tended with care. We are ...

After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…

On familial alcoholism, a California commune, and the long way home.

It’s been the opposite of what you might call a banner year for legacy media. Public faith in our papers of record continues to erode. The monoculture’s in shambles, and you can’t…

Going to live theater is one of the main things I do in my life, so I have decided to highlight some of this year’s productions that particularly excelled in categories that I just now made up. Best C...

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.

I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.

It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…

Tis a truth universally acknowledged: all precocious theatre kids raised up in Western traditions meet Arcadia or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at some point sophomore year, then franticall…

Eloise, the OG enfant terrible best known for causing mayhem at the Plaza Hotel, is getting a live adaptation. And an unlikely duo is behind it: Ryan Reynolds and Amy Sherman-Palladino, of Deadpool…