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Is College Education a Right or a Privilege?
In this episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, the novelists V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell discuss how cuts to higher education are threatening the fabric of American life. Guests John Freeman and...
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A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was the last Jewish student at the Berlin Fine Arts Academy. The danger for her had become so great by late 1938 that her family decided to get her out of Germany. In...
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10 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss
As the nation’s only nonprofit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
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9 Books You Should Read This December
Euripides, Bakkhai, trans. Anne Carson (New Directions) In the characteristically unusual translator’s note to her translation of Euripides’ Bakkhai, Anne Carson writes, “The shock of the new / will...
View ArticleAn Apology From Our Editors
Last Thursday, December 7, we published an excerpt from Adam Valen Levinson’s memoir that should never have made it through our editorial process. Though the memoir in question recounts the writer’s...
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Jaron Lanier: “VR Should Be About Live Connections with Real People”
Dave Eggers: Your new book, Dawn of the New Everything, which is about the birth of virtual reality, is also an intimate memoir, detailing your unusual upbringing. To tell the story behind VR, did you...
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20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer
In this ever-shifting and uncertain world, we all could use a little more certainty in our lives. Especially writers with a signed contract behind them and a pub date looming. With our column this...
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Don’t Die, I Say: 3 Poems on Gun Violence and Police Brutality
Our country is in the grips of a gun violence crisis. It has crept into our neighborhoods, towns, cities, and states. It has created fear in spaces of joy and innocence, like movie theaters and...
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All the President’s Shakespeare
In episode six of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk political betrayal past and present with novelist Jess Walter and poet Kiki Petrosino. Jess Walter once interviewed...
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Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Perez In Conversation
Award-winning poets Chen Chen and Craig Perez fire away in The Lifted Brow’s continuing Poets in Conversation series. Chen Chen: What do you find most exciting right now about contemporary poetry? And:...
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East Bay Booksellers: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read
As the nation’s only nonprofit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
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Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of 2017
Emily Temple, Senior Editor Amelia Gray, Isadora: I am not someone who reads historical fiction, particularly. But I am someone who reads everything Amelia Gray writes, and I can tell you that Isadora...
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The Best Crime Books of 2017
After all the reading we’ve been doing, it’d be a crime not set out a list of our favorite crime books of the year. From a serial killer in mid-century Glasgow, to a Texas Ranger taking on white...
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Maggie Nelson on Proust, Guilt, and the Disillusionment of Youth
In this episode of A Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber talks to the writer Maggie Nelson about how Proust inspires guilt, the disillusionment of youth, and when aging becomes a spectacular...
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Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan on Trump, the Internet, and Our Dark Future
This conversation between Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan was the closing event of the 2017 Vancouver Writers Festival. The topic of the conversation was the writer in the world. There is no...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 50 to 41
50. Emma Straub opens a bookstore, books revealed to be magic. In the waning days of 2016, news broke that Cobble Hill’s beloved Book Court would be closing after 35 years. Luckily, the grief was...
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What the Lit Hub Staff is Reading, Watching, and Listening to This Holiday...
I have an annual tradition of watching the three-hour version of Ingmar Bergman’s “Christmas” classic, Fanny and Alexander, and falling asleep during the creepy parts toward the end. I will also be...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 40 to 31
Head here for the beginning of the countdown, 50 through 41. 40. LeVar Burton survives lawsuits, Reading Rainbow has hope! Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton has been trying to revive the nostalgic...
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The Top Ten Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2017
1. Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump In what quickly became an internet genre unto itself—i.e. “How the hell did we end up with Donald Trump”—this essay stood out in 2017. With her...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 20 to 11
20. J.D. Vance starts to think he really does understand the white working class. The “working class”—that specious, politicized euphemism for a mythical class of “white people” who all look like...
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