Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?

Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?

On Revenge, Punishment, Bravery, and Cowardice

By Wallace Shawn | June 13, 2017

Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Michele Filgate Talks to the Very Funny Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

By Michele Filgate | May 31, 2017

Fulfilling the Promise to Visit My Late Lover's Parents

Fulfilling the Promise to Visit My Late Lover's Parents

Fenton Johnson Uncovers Memories of Survival and The Limitless Heart

By Fenton Johnson | May 16, 2017

The Best Books About Books: Part 3

The Best Books About Books: Part 3

From the Critical to the Personal, Reflections on Reading

By Jonathan Russell Clark | May 10, 2017

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

Sallie Tisdale Wanders Out Onto the Ice

By Sallie Tisdale | May 4, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

New Clothes Won't Fix You (and Will Likely Cause Shame and Discomfort)

By Scaachi Koul | May 1, 2017

Illness as Horror Movie, and Other Thoughts on Time, Disease, and Capitalism

By Matthew Sharpe | April 28, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Essays, Economics, and Eco-Fantasy

By Jane Ciabattari | April 25, 2017

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

Brandon Taylor on How to Survive a Disaster

By Brandon Taylor | April 5, 2017

Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

"If I traveled to one of these distant Americas, I had to reimagine them"

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2017

Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

When in Doubt, Head for Deeper Waters

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2017

Is Pedantry the Mother of the Essay?

Is Pedantry the Mother of the Essay?

And Other Questions Ken Chen Has for the Essay at the End of Time

By Ken Chen | March 16, 2017

30 Books in 30 Days: <em>Against Everything</em>

30 Books in 30 Days: Against Everything

Bethanne Patrick on Mark Greif's Essay Collection

By Bethanne Patrick | March 13, 2017

How I Came to the Church of Rock and Roll

How I Came to the Church of Rock and Roll

Darcey Steinke on Finding Faith in America’s Great Religion

By Darcey Steinke | March 10, 2017

« First‹ Previous123456789Next ›
Page 6 of 9
    • 7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's ComplexitiesNovember 4, 2025 by Donna Freitas
    • To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship FailingsNovember 4, 2025 by Jenna Satterthwaite
    • The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in FictionNovember 4, 2025 by Christina Henry
    • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member