Rachel F. Seidman
Rachel F. Seidman is an award-winning curator and a professional oral historian who works at the Smithsonian American Women’s…
Fonte
lithub.com
64articoli totali nell'archivio
Art and Photography – Literary Hub
Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature
Claire Swinarski
Claire Swinarski was born and raised in Wisconsin, where she still lives with her family and writes stories for readers of all…
The Latest – Literary Hub
Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast – Literary Hub
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their…
Awakeners – Literary Hub
This is Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts. Robert Frost allegedly said he was not a…
Thresholds – Literary Hub
Valeria Luiselli on Sounding the Borderlands
Politics – Literary Hub
Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature
Lit Hub Weekly: May 11 – 15, 2026
“The waxing and waning fortunes of languages are inevitably historical and political questions, and these questions are likewise…
Who Are You Stacey Levine? What Happens When a “Deeply Weird,” (Very) Small…
It was like any Monday morning at Seattle Central College, the community college where Stacey Levine has taught creative writing…
Lucy Ives Offers a Few Creative Prompts to Knock You Off Kilter
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I write prompts in the way someone else might write…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Vanessa Hua’s Coyoteland, Isaac Fitzgerald’s American Rambler, and Christina Baker Kline’s The Foursome all feature among the…
Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously
Phil Calian, editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald, could have worked at nearly any newspaper in the nation after he…
On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s…
The science fiction writer Dan Simmons passed away on Feb 21, 2026 at the age of 77. When I was living in Denver, working as a…
Five Books For the Insomniac in Your Life
Shakespeare called sleep “nature’s soft nurse.” But who is caring for the insomniac who has forgotten how to sleep? Some kind of…
Chet’la Sebree on How Chronic Illness Forever Altered Her Literary Life
“Your body is the first home you know.” –Dantiel W. Moniz * After four months of travel and writing to complete a book proposal…
When a Californian Moves to Montana and Gets Pushback From the Locals
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies.…
American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has won the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize.
Today in a ceremony at Swansea, Decatur-based American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney was announced as the winner of this year’s…
Florence Pugh stars in the first trailer for Zoe Kazan’s new East of Eden…
Happy upfront week, to all who celebrate. And it’s an especially happy one for Steinbeck fans. Yesterday, the trailer for…
The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)
Before there was a place called New York, there was Anthony the Turk. Thought to be a Muslim born in Morocco, he possessed more…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our smorgasbord of sumptuous reviews this week includes Hermione Hoby on Harriet Clark’s The Hill, Avi Shlaim on Omer…
Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic…
I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene:…
To Tell A Story: On Blending Family History and Lived Experience in Nonfiction
Once upon a time, you couldn’t tell a story straight. The problem might be that you began as a poet. That focus on a moment, an…
Eight Memoirs About Medicine, Illness, and Healing
Nothing is more personal than illness and healing. So medical memoirs are not monolithic, and are written by doctors, patients,…
From My Hometown to Vietnam, Searching For My Biological Father
Marge loved to talk on the phone. I hated it. But I indulged her, calling almost every day for forty years. This phone call was…
The Annotated Nightstand: What Stine An is Reading Now, and Next
The poet Stine An, who is at the very least a finalist for best author/translator photo, is the translator of the recent poetry…
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores…
What We Can—and Must—Learn From the Burning of Pacific Palisades
The mahogany-colored sandstone and shale cliffs that tower over the Pacific Ocean resemble a wall of massive tree trunks,…
Death of the Soccer God
Many years later, when Gilbert Chevalier faced a firing squad under a burning midday sun in the yard of Fort Dimanche, the worst…
On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His…
Through August and into September, Emily Brontë watched her brother kill himself, not with a pistol shot to his head or hanging…
Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!
Last week was fiction heavy, and today we have a slew of the other side of the coin: many nonfiction riches await. Isaac…
What’s with all the nostalgia for Obama-era New York?
On a recent episode of Anne-Helen Peterson’s Culture Study podcast, the author Xochitl Gonzalez waxed nostalgic for the end of…
When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train
At some point during Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1944 train trip from Atlanta to Simsbury, Conn., the hungry, rambunctious teenager…
“How My Light Is Spent”
Teaching, Darcy’s father had always told her, was useful work. It was meaningful work, work that made sense and also made money,…
Marianne Boruch has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.
This week, Poets & Writers awarded their annual Jackson Poetry Prize, which “recognizes an American poet of exceptional talent,”…
Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. You have some tricks. You’re a magazine writer, after…
How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s…
Fifteen-year-old Eileen disappeared on a quiet Sunday evening in February 1954. She was at work when it happened. Eileen was a…
Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For…
A few years ago, my longtime children’s book editor rejected my idea for a new middle grade novel. The rejection hit me hard—the…
“Yah, boo, sucks.” On the time Angela Carter absolutely flamed Joan Didion in…
Here’s a fun fact to celebrate Angela Carter’s birthday: the beloved feminist icon did not care for literary tote saint Joan…
Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?
Well, hello there! Welcome back to another intriguing installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary…
Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine
I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s…
On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy
In March, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy discriminated against therapist Kaley Chiles based on…
Unions are having a moment in publishing. Here’s why.
Yesterday, workers at the University of Chicago Press announced a plan to unionize. As Publishers Weekly reported, the UCP…
“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Growing up in Brazil in the 1960s and 70s, I had no frame of reference for free speech. My Spanish mother had grown up with…
What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners
Not long ago, I decided spur of the moment to attend an estate sale in my Washington, DC, neighborhood. As I walked the few…
Is Peter Thiel a “bad fan” of LOTR?
Who is Peter Thiel, really? Maverick, or monster? Little is known about the eccentric billionaire manipulating our world from…
Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Kathryn Stockett, and more: 24 new books out…
As a rule, the first Tuesday of the month will usually bring great tidings of books: this sunny day in May is no different. We…
Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners.
The winners and nominated finalists of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote…