Cards in each mailbox, angel, manger, star and lamb, as the rural carrier, driving the snowy roads, hears from her bundles the plaintive bleating of sheep, the shuffle of sandals, the clopping of came...

A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.

The Mitfords, a family of extremophiles, are characters that ultimately don’t translate to the screen.

Podcast Episode · You Must Remember This · S20 E221 · 25m

Dear Lori,

Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.

Joy Castro reviews Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” translated by Ann Goldstein.

Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.

Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANU…

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Tobias Carroll recommends a dystopian novel from Venezuela, memoirs of imprisonment from Tunisia, Brazilian short stories, and more.

Part One: Writing about place

Holiday greetings. It is I, Winston George Higgensbooth Sr., real estate tycoon and hater of children and Christmas cookies… or at least that’s wha...