Robert G. Penner “Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of ...

Robert G. Penner “Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of ...

Who was Kay Cicellis?

Read novelist Maggie Gee’s essay about Mrosovsky’s long-lost erotic novel.

What is going on with the reissue trend in publishing?

The author’s final novel is finally published 40 years after her death and provides a frank, idiosyncratic portrait of sexual desire

“It’s the perfect just-oversize-enough fit, and the brown color is very nice.”

The fraught holidays of Éric Rohmer – Audrey Wollen

The director’s breezy aesthetic is all over summer mood boards.

Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.

On the French New Wave legend’s life before cinema, and his newly translated first and only novel.

And we're celebrating with film screenings in five cities.

Éric Rohmer Foreword by André Aciman Translated from the French by Aaron Kerner “The father of the French New Wave . . . Rohmer’s surfaces aren’t placid but taut; they’re smoot...

In the phrasing of the great critic Serge Daney, the films and filmmakers championed by Cahiers du Cinéma were “haunted by writing”… and of none of the Cahiers critics-turned-auteurs was this more tru...

"Brand New Cherry Flavor" showrunner Nick Antosca on his relationship with horror author Todd Grimson, how the TV show came to be, and what makes Grimson’s writing unique.

Originally published in 1946, the lone novel from celebrated French New Wave filmmaker Rohmer (1920–2010) is an alluring if ramb...

Carolivia Herron New afterword by the author Family trauma, race, and the destiny of a nation corrupted by slavery, cast in the light of epic myth: “More than a saga of Black revitalization . ....

The Snowdon family stands as a pinnacle of Black excellence in Washington, D.C.: educated, affluent, and influential. John Christopher, the patriarch, is revered by his medical students at Howard U…

Jane Ellen Harrison Foreword by Maria Popova From Marginalian Editions: a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison—heroine to generations of writers from Virg...

Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie is being reissued by McNally Editions.

Charles Neider Foreword by Will Oldham The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarth...

Pamela Hansford Johnson Foreword by Michael Dirda From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of li...

Charles Neider Foreword by Will Oldham The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarth...

Charles Neider’s “The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones” is a neglected classic about hardened characters in 1880s California.

Charles Neider Foreword by Will Oldham The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarth...

Stephanie Danler on John Gregory Dunne’s sublimely sleazy memoir of a breakdown in Las Vegas—and the marital mythology that shadows it

Vivek Shanbhag Translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta)

Lit Hub’s list of the most anticipated books of the second half of the year includes many genre titles, but, one might argue, not enough. What can I say, I’m an excitable boy, still in …

Charles Neider Foreword by Will Oldham The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarth...