Books & Literature

2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s...

In 1753, the Jesuit priest Marc-Antoine Laugier described the origin of dwelling by imagining a lone “savage” troubled by nature’s extremes. This “primitive man,”...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do we suggest the ineffable through actions and dynamic verbs? In the following exchange...

This weekend, the Park Avenue Armory plays host to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair—i.e., Mecca, for a certain type of bibliophile. At the press preview,...

Bro! May has all the sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction we didn’t know we needed. Older female protagonists (more than one!) chase samurai contracts...

My soul is so full that we are here together tonight. Thank you, Hannah and Maribeth for your loving, clear and steady vision for...

This is the kind of book you pitch by analogy: JG Ballard meets Gabrielle Zevin; Isaac Asimov meets Stephen Chbosky; Ready Player One meets...

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1919, the May Day Riots take place in Cleveland, Ohio. They will become the subject of F....