Literary Hub

“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
Lit Hub Daily: July 23, 2026
Paradise Pawn
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel
For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s
The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund
Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2026