Our review of Kimberly Blaeser's new story collection.

Our review of Hieu Minh Nguyen's new poetry collection, "Staying Still"

Our review of Hernan Diaz’s new book, "Ply."

With her new horror anthology, Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror, Chicago based editor/author Cynthia Pelayo expects to broaden the horizon for her prolific work in a debut edition fr...

Education is supposed to be a path toward a better life. But what happens when the path becomes so competitive, expensive, and unforgiving that the pursuit of that better life begins to consume the li...

“Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any we...

This class is Pay What You Can! Pay $1 or $50 - whatever works for your budget!  Welcome to the Party, a single-session, cross-genre introduction to creative writing, asks participants to embrace…

Matthew Prigge is an author and librarian at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has written several books, including Outlaws, Rebels, & Vixens, which was made into a feature-length docum...

In 1999, upon receiving the Open Society Prize, then-Czech Republic President Václav Havel gave a speech entitled The Last Laugh. “The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor,” he...

Our review of Ted Hughes' newly reissued poetry collection, "Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders"

Our review of Amy Fusselman's new novel, "Cloud Six."

It’s been fun, summer! But come September, there immediately comes a hint of fall in the air (and I don’t just mean from all the Halloween candy that’s already on the shelves). Fall in the book world ...

In 1999, upon receiving the Open Society Prize, then-Czech Republic President Václav Havel gave a speech entitled The Last Laugh. “The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor,” he...

Minnesota-based and Hugo award-winning writer Naomi Kritzer started thinking about her latest book, Obstetrix, when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. “What would states do if they lost all their obs...

Editor’s note: What follows is a special feature in which two authors interview each other about their work. Madeleine Moss’s novel Mistranslation publishes September 22 with The University of Iowa Pr...

The Owens sisters, played by Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, return to the big screen in Practical Magic 2. The movie, directed by Susanne Bier (In a Better World, Bird Box), is a sequel to Practica...

Our review of Michael Gorra's new survey of 19th-century literature, "The Storytellers."

Our review of Sarah Anderson's debut novel, "Fallow"

Our review of Qian Zhongshu's classic, "Fortress Besieged."

Critics in Conversation is a “podcast on the page” feature in which contributors discuss a book or issue currently making headlines in the literary world. Read our piece on Angel Down here and Yestery...

“I remember that feeling of paranoia, a hairy texture in the corner of my eye, and not knowing whether I was seeing what I was seeing,”  Kate Zambreno writes in Foam, their latest book: a series of fi...

Our interview with Jasper Craven on his new book, "God Forgives, Brother's Don't."

Emily St. John Mandel creates a party at the end of the current world order posing the question what exists beyond the veil.

In Children of the Wolf, the new novel by Chicago-based author Abby Geni, the ominous prologue teases a story of murder, secrets, and chaos. The novel jumps immediately to the narrator’s past to revea...

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Grace Krilanovich (Acid Green Velvet) Emily Ogden (Darkness…

Our review of Peter Rock's latest novel.

In this four-week craft-centered seminar, multi-genre writer Paul Lisicky invites participants to explore the deep architecture of memoir at the level of the sentence and the scene.

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