Literary Hub

Why Virginia Woolf is having a moment in Hollywood.
Lit Hub Daily: July 27, 2026
The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System
Why Black Americans Need Reparations Now
What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish?
“Copernicus Is Dying”
Lit Hub Weekly: July 20 – 24, 2026
Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2026
“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before”
A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media
Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies
On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity
“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics
Why Americans can’t seem to quit Little House on the Prairie.
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women