
Must-Read Horror Novels Coming Out This Fall
Three upcoming horror novels to plop onto your spooky season reading list.
Three upcoming horror novels to plop onto your spooky season reading list.
Get to know the history of bestiaries and discover the wide array of contemporary takes on these creature compendiums.
The most vulnerable scene in Materialists, Director Celine Song’s sophomore feature, isn’t a love scene. It’s not when John, a down-on-his-luck artist played by Chris Evans, repeatedly declares his love for Lucy, his ex and matchmaker for New York’s elite played by Dakota Johnson. Nor is it during one of the many dates Harry, Pedro […] The post Jane Austen Did It Better appeared first on Electric Literature .
When I met Marissa Davis in 2017, she was a baby poet. She will admit this herself. She’d just graduated from Vanderbilt University and was spending her June as a summer fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. I got my chance to hear her read for the first time in one of those […] The post A Poetry Collection That Imagines a World Beyond Empire appeared first on Electric Literature .
This blend of science writing and memoir explores the complicated and fascinating relationships between ourselves and the nature around us.
Here are the five most-read books on Goodreads this week! These are the buzziest books of the moment, from historical fiction to thrillers.
Are zines making a comeback? A look at contemporary zine culture, as well as where and how it fits into the world of libraries.
A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. Superheroes are back, baby! You will believe a man can fly—but did you know that such things were happening in the decades before Siegel and Schuster created Kal-El in 1938? […]
Another month of books, another month of book covers. August’s covers were all about paintings, paintings, paintings. And attendant text treatments! Plus some other fun stuff. Here are my favorites from the end of summer: The first of several solid art choices this month, enhanced by the unusual split text—I particularly like the way the […]
Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Jason Mott’s People Like Us, and Elaine Castillo’s Moderation all feature among August’s best reviewed fiction titles. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber) 8 Rave • 3 Positive • […]
Peter Ames Carlin’s Tonight in Jungleland, Nicholas Boggs’ Baldwin, and Scott Anderson’s King of Kings all feature among August’s best reviewed nonfiction titles. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson (Doubleday) […]
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the US war in Afghanistan combined, making it the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded. As international journalists have been banned from entering Gaza, foreign aid workers have had to step into the role […]
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * SEPTEMBER FICTION The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani | Read by Mira Sorvino, Adriana Trigiani AudioFile Earphones Award [Penguin Audio | 12.25 hrs.] Narrator Mira Sorvino enchants as she portrays Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a […]
Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Self-discovery is one of the essential rites of passage toward maturity and later mastery for writers. Part of this artistic self-knowledge can be achieved by developing self-awareness through self-appraisal of one’s origins, impulses and sources necessary to answer the most basic artistic questions: What kind […]
Fall is here, a season with a name rather suggestive in the unsettling times we find ourselves in—but art can always help us navigate the strangedark. To that end, I come bearing new books to consider as September rolls around. Below, you’ll find a collection of bright lights in this grim moment, with twenty-four books […]