Literature

In 1984, Peter Brooks, now an emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, published Reading for the Plot, in which...

Library workers are trained professionals. Most librarians spend thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars to earn a master’s degree...

November 10, 2022, 2:23pm As you may have seen on Book Twitter today, the unionized workers of HarperCollins are striking...

Skipping class in the girl’s bathroom, smoking outside the bar, or off in some far-flung corner of the church during...

1.I have a feeling I owe the US contract for my third novel to Herman Melville. Call me a lucky...

“And The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, who’s a problematic author,” spits Bruce Friendman into the microphone at the...

November 9, 2022, 12:21pm For as long as humans have been writing, we’ve been writing about the things that make...

My Menial Job at the Anti-Fuck Factory Katherine Dunn Share article The Raised Blade by Katherine Dunn There came a...

Joe Meno’s new novel, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies, is told through the eyes of twentysomething musician Aleks, who is the product of a...

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November 8, 2022, 1:04pm Because I contribute heavily to the Lit Hub Instagram account, I spend an unconventional amount of...

Why should we continue to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses two thousand years after it was written? For some, the Metamorphoses should...

“Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s” concerns a protagonist named Cecilia, a teenage girl who for years has been meeting her divorced bookie...

If I’m certain of something in my life, it’s that gift-giving is one of my love languages. I love getting...

November 7, 2022, 1:33pm In honor of tomorrow’s US midterm elections (NB: please vote), I present: a little literary inspiration...

Pharrell Would Be Happier with a Securely Bolted Roof The Roof Is Not on Fire: Dispatches from the Roofing Association...