Literature

Immerse yourself in the world of literature with updates on book releases, author interviews, literary awards, and literary events.

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead
What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?
The Powerful Freedom of BDSM
On Redeeming Freud
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All
On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life
The Rumpus is back!
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper.
Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award.
Ghost-Eye
Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today!
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026
Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young
On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery
A Global Journey: Understanding Centuries of Black Exclusion and Erasure in Healthcare
Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month.
See David Hockney’s odd and lovely illustrations for his favorite Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)
Crescendo