A new season means new books. Here are 34 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara about “the high stakes and complexities of translation,” complicated men, and...
Last night, at their 2026 Literary Salon in Minneapolis, stalwart indie publisher Graywolf Press unveiled a new logo, developed in partnership with Minneapolis-based branding studio Hi, Hello. This is the press’s thir...
Where does Harlan Coben get ideas? “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” | Lit Hub Craft Phillip Lopate explores the lore and legacy of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” | Lit Hub Biography Steven W. Thrasher reads No Go...
“Rip van Winkle” begins with a description setting the scene between the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains (“these fairy mountains,” which Irving so loved), then introduces us to the protagonist. Rip is a descen...
As I read Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us in the waning days of the summer, I realized their debut novel paired well with Jose Esteban Muñoz’s final work, The Sense of Brown (2020). Together, the duo made a perfect
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Cultivating a writer’s mind frame means looking at the world a certain way—that is, as a source of material. Everything you see is a potential...
On a sun-drenched day in June 2018, a woman in traditional Native regalia dropped a large wreath of flowers into the Atlantic Ocean. The impact jostled loose a few petals before the circle of blossoms slowly drifted ...
There is an old colonizer adage that “the old will die and the young will forget.” In fact, Israel built its future wagering that the Palestinians violently displaced and expelled in the Nakba would eventually move on...