The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1877, Renée Vivien is born. A British poet who wrote in French, she is taken into account one of many twentieth century’s first notable lesbian poets.  Kyra Davis Lurie on Sugar Hill, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s racism, and reimagining The Nice Gatsby as a Black American […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1943, Nikki Giovanni is born.  Evelyn McDonnell on the ethics of Notes to John, industrial exploitation, and the promoting of Joan Didion’s privateness. | Lit Hub Criticism “Ants deserve extra poems.” Hannah Brooks-Motl praises poetry about bugs by John Clare, William Blake, David Seung, and […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 2012, Ray Bradbury dies. Evelyn McDonnell on the ethics of Notes to John, industrial exploitation, and the promoting of Joan Didion’s privateness. | Lit Hub Criticism Daegan Miller considers the magnificence and politics of Robert Macfarlane’s Is A River Alive? | Lit Hub Criticism “Right […]

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June 2, 2025, 3:08pm This week, Wes Anderson’s newest concoction, The Phoenician Scheme, hits screens. And due to this newest work from a pointillist who loves his reference texts, I’m excited about Anderson’s prop books. Wes has romanticized the literary arts for nearly his complete profession. His Salinger obsession exhibits in The Royal Tenenbaums, which […]

It could be the summer season of slop, however that doesn’t imply there aren’t some nice books on the market. Listed here are the novels popping out this summer season that the people on the Literary Hub workers have learn and cherished, and wish to advocate to you. Article continues after commercial Darrow Farr, The […]

Might 23, 2025, 3:22pm Blissful spring, fellow vacationers. This week we’re again to fundamentals with the great things. Bodily books provided by bodily individuals are bringing us numerous pleasure. And when the pages don’t compel, we’re transferring our our bodies round. Within the wake of #AIBooksellerGate, our personal Drew Broussard put out a stay bookseller’s […]

You shouldn’t lose sleep over abstruse literary points, not when you may search the nice literary feuds and discover a author or two who has debated the difficulty, misplaced sleep, after which mates. In his current guide, Stranger than Fiction, Edwin Frank touches on the spat between H.G. Wells and Henry James. Wells apparently thought […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1824, the writer John Murray, alongside 5 of Lord Byron‘s pals and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron’s memoirs, fearing the scandalous particulars will harm Byron’s popularity.  Mark Lynas on what would occur within the first few hours of nuclear struggle (and forestall nuclear […]

Could 15, 2025, 9:30am In line with the powers that be (er, apparently in response to Dan Wickett of the Rising Writers Community), Could is Brief Story Month. To have fun, for the third yr in a row, the Literary Hub employees can be recommending a single quick story, free* to learn on-line, each (work) day […]