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- Craft and Criticism
- Literary Criticism
- Craft and Advice
- In Conversation
- On Translation
- Fiction and Poetry
- Short Story
- From the Novel
- Poem
- News and Culture
- History
- Science
- Politics
- Biography
- Memoir
- Food
- Technology
- Bookstores and Libraries
- Film and TV
- Travel
- Music
- Art and Photography
- The Hub
- Style
- Design
- Sports
- BUY A HAT
- Lit Hub Radio
- The Lit Hub Podcast
- Awakeners
- Fiction/Non/Fiction
- The Critic and Her Publics
- Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
- Memoir Nation
- Beyond the Page
- First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
- Thresholds
- The Cosmic Library
- Culture Schlock
- Reading Lists
- The Best of the Decade
- Book Marks
- Best Reviewed Books
- CrimeReads
- True Crime
- The Daily Thrill
- Log In

- Featured

## The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s *The Road*
### John Hendrix Explores the Cultural Impact of Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
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## How the Human Brain Actually Gets Us From Point A to Point B
### John Edward Huth on the Cognitive Maps Inside Our Brains
- Featured

## Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
### Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness
- Featured

## Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel
### Grace Walker: “Two lives, two minds, combining. It’s the idea that shaped my writing, and now, in a quieter way, my days.”

The Latest

## Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
#### By Steven W. Thrasher

## What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket
#### By Literary Hub

## On Barbara Pym, Author... and Stalker?
#### By Evangeline Riddiford Graham

## The Hub
### News, Notes, Talk

- #### Here's what's making us happy *this* week.
- #### What’s going on at *Teen Vogue*?
- #### Five novels to read if you’re fascinated by the Black bourgeoisie.
- #### Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more: 23 new books out today!
- #### David Szalay’s *Flesh* has won the 2025 Booker Prize.
- #### Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
- #### This week's news in Venn diagrams.
- #### Here's the winner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award.
- #### Here’s what’s making us happy *this* week.
- #### Want to understand the Zohran phenomenon? Here's a mini reading list.
- #### The NYC Mayor Fiction Canon (or why Adams should probably write a crime thriller).
- #### C.D. Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize.

The Latest

## Give a Nazi an Inch... And Other Important Lessons From Weimar, Germany
#### By Volker Ullrich

## An Anniversary That Bears Fruit: *Oranges*, 40 Years On
#### By Jeanette Winterson

## Suddenly So Alone: Jean Chen Ho on Dislocation and Longing in Upstate New York
#### By Jean Chen Ho

## The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
#### By Madeline Lane-McKinley

## Beth Macy on Writing to Explore Why We’re So Divided
#### By Memoir Nation

## Stewart O'Nan on Moderating Sentimentality
#### By Drew Broussard

## Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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## Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure
#### By Jen Percy

## Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger
#### By Jonathan C. Slaght

## Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny
#### By Helen Lederer

## “The Beer Drinker,” a Poem by Jean Follain, Translated by Andrew Seguin
#### By Jean Follain and Andrew Seguin

## What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
#### By Book Marks

## The Annotated Nightstand: What Quiara Alegría Hudes Is Reading Now, and Next
#### By Diana Arterian

#### Crime Reads

##### November 17, 2025
#### 10 New Books Coming Out This Week
##### By CrimeReads

#### How Southern Crime Fiction Became a Publishing Powerhouse
##### By Leigh Dunlap

#### What to Watch: 6 British Mystery Series for Fans of *Vera*
##### By Kate Mailer

#### 10 New Books Coming Out This Week
##### By CrimeReads

#### Book Marks

#### The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

#### 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Craft & Criticism

## The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s *The Road*
#### By John Hendrix

## On Barbara Pym, Author... and Stalker?
#### By Evangeline Riddiford Graham

## An Anniversary That Bears Fruit: *Oranges*, 40 Years On
#### By Jeanette Winterson

Politics

## Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
#### By Steven W. Thrasher

## Give a Nazi an Inch... And Other Important Lessons From Weimar, Germany
#### By Volker Ullrich

## Suddenly So Alone: Jean Chen Ho on Dislocation and Longing in Upstate New York
#### By Jean Chen Ho

History

## What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket
#### By Literary Hub

## Give a Nazi an Inch... And Other Important Lessons From Weimar, Germany
#### By Volker Ullrich

## Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger
#### By Jonathan C. Slaght

- **Lit Hub** Daily

## November 17, 2025

- *Electra* and the thrills and limits of screaming into the void
- Saree Makdisi on the human demands of the genocide after the genocide
- Politics in the age of humiliation

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