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Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library
The idea of a single day devoted to the earth is absurd. In the 49 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated, human civilization—checked by neither morality nor policy—has wrecked devastation upon...
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Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library
The idea of a single day devoted to the earth is absurd. In the 49 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated, human civilization—checked by neither morality nor policy—has wrecked devastation upon...
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Can a Little Bit of Data Make Parenting Easier?
Pamela Druckerman, author of There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story and Emily Oster, author of Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool,...
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Keith Gessen on Soviet Publishing and His Roundabout Path to Writing Fiction
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. One of the most popular questions adults love to ask kids is what they want to be when they grow up. It’s a...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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11 Books You Should Read This May
Binnie Kirshenbaum, Rabbits for Food (Soho Press) During the forced reverie of New Year’s Eve, Binnie Kirshenbaum’s clinically depressed writer-protagonist Bunny completely unravels and ends up in a...
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The Comma Queen and the Internet’s Copy Chief on What Matters to a Copyeditor
We asked Mary Norris, The New Yorker‘s “comma queen” and author, most recently, of Greek to Me, and Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House and author of Dreyer’s English, about their love of...
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In Memoriam: Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly, poet and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, died on Thursday, April 11, 2019 of multiple myeloma at the age of 79. He was the author of ten poetry collections,...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Legally Blonde, Franny Choi, and Miriam Toews
This weekend I picked up Franny Choi’s new queer cyborg poetry collection, Soft Science. Playful, angry, metallic, it captures the spirit of our robotic, permanently present modern existence in the...
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What Do Mothers and Children Owe Each Other?
In Michele Filgate’s courageous anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About (Simon & Schuster, April 20, 2019), 15 esteemed writers examine the unsaid in their adult relationships with their...
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“Mermaid River”
The sign read, Welcome to Mermaid River, and in smaller print, No Swimming, The Rocks Are Sharp, but my grandmother remembered when the river was just a river. Nobody called it any name or took photos...
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“Slingshot”
I was 70 when I met Richard. He was 32. He told me he was a young man, and I didn’t respond to that because I really didn’t know what that was, to be a young man, if that was a good thing to be or a...
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“610 North, 610 West”
1 For a while our father kept this other woman in the Heights. It was tough luck seeing him most nights at best. He’d snatch his keys from the counter, nod at all of us at once, spit something about...
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“Aguacero”
I remember the sky had been dark since morning, as if protesting the start of another day. Rain held off till afternoon, then started heavy, long gray water shards dropping like scissors on the...
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“Omakase”
The couple decided that tonight they would go out for sushi. Two years ago, they’d met online. Three months ago, they’d moved in together. Previously, she’d lived in Boston, but now she lived in New...
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Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize
Now celebrating its centenary, the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, edited by Laura Furman, presents the 2019 winners of the prize for short fiction. The anthology will be published this fall, via...
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In Memoriam: Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina, a leading voice in African literature, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and founder of Kwani?, died in Nairobi on Tuesday at the age of 48. His friends and...
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Were Libraries Borges’s Universe or the Other Way Around?
The following conversation took place on May 7th, 2019 as part of the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City. Inmaculada Lara Bonilla and Claudia Salazar Jiménez co-moderated the discussion. This...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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15 Books You Should Read This June
Mona Awad, Bunny (Viking) I first picked up this novel because of the jacket copy, which described it as “The Vegetarian meets Heathers” (I mean, right? Some publicist deserves a raise), but I admit...
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