Blog

• Robert Moor Climbed a Tree. He Stayed There for a Decade.
• The Dog and the Peace Worker
• Emily Wilson Is Starting Over With Homer
• September's Paperbacks: Johnson, Spark, and the Rest
• What Tim Curry Understood About Terror
• Mirren as Highsmith: A Talent for Murder and the Pleasure of Meta-Casting
• When Your Story Lands Wrong: A Workshop Problem Nobody Talks About
• What It Means to Love Elliott Smith
• What's Left When the Books Burn
• What Draws a Playwright to Hesse? Shakthidharan on Siddhartha
• San Francisco's Quiet Archive: Fifty Years of Queer Children's Books Nobody Was Supposed to Keep
• Billie Eilish, Unrecognizable, Steps Into Esther Greenwood's Bell Jar
• The Philosopher Who Still Asks Questions
• When Academia Closes Ranks—and Crushes
• When Therapy Becomes a Novel, And a Novel Becomes Political
• Three Books That Won't Let You Go This Week
• How Television Saved Camille Acker's Novel
• When Your Dead Friend Teaches You How to Live
• The Lit Hub Weekly Offers a Grim View of How Systems Eat Their Own
• The Man Who Sold Books Like Lightning Rods
• The Spreadsheet of Desire
• What happens when you pay attention in late August
• What Orchids Teach Us About Books That Won't Stay Still
• When Reading Stops Being Work, We All Lose
• A Censor's Awakening, Chosen by Those in Cells
• Tony Tulathimutte's $150,000 Prize Comes with a Peculiar Admission
• Rankine's Conversation With Collapse
• The Price of Being Visible
• Le Guin Built Worlds Where The Earth Isn't Scenery
• Gunn Has Left the Room
• The Bracket Wars: Why Sidney's Parentheses Still Matter
• A Girlfriend's Manuscript in a Language She Doesn't Speak
• A Dead American Hermit Walks Into a WeChat Group
• Amazon's Book-Burning Warehouse, or: A Dinosaur with the Wrong Teeth
• Marina Closs Writes Through the End of a World
• Octavia Butler's Two Words Changed Everything
• The Thing That Wants to Stay Alive
• The Study Everyone Forgot, and the Book Asking Why
• The Week's Books You're Actually Meant to Finish
• The Case for Reading Backwards
• When Writing Is Survival: Inside Husam Maarouf's Gaza Publications
• The Rumpus is betting on Spanish-language readers
• The Book Club Moment Is Here (Finally)
• The Noise and the Need: Why Book Clubs Are Back, Sort Of
• Living with the Uncomfortable: Dino Martins Wants You to Respect Parasites
• When Art Goes Feral
• The Scroll, the Cell, and What We Get Wrong About Danger
• When a Donor Decides What Scholars Can Say
• The Art of Getting Someone to Talk
• Who Gets to Study the Stars Shapes What We Think We See