It is a peculiar kind of time travel to imagine standing in the shadow of Pemberley and asking how much its owner would be worth in today

For years, the ghost was a convenient plot device, a spooky shortcut to explain away unresolved trauma or a missing heir.

Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge ​is underway with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!​ | Lit Hub Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography

“Del Toro loves monsters—misunderstood, sympathetic monsters—and Shelley’s Creature is the primogenitor of this tradition.” Olivia Rutigliano praises Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. | Lit Hub Film Ron Rosenbaum breaks down Bob Dylan’s reaction to receiving his Nobel Prize.

Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | Lit Hub Criticism “I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I can do.” Iranian writer Shohreh Laici on war and

What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV Florence Hazrat explores the surprisingly controversial history of the parenthesis. | Lit …

Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Blac…

Why mothers with babies are the ultimate flâneurs, even if “there aren’t a lot of mother-flâneurs in literature.” | Lit Hub Craft Tracy Borman recommends books by C.J. Sansom, Hilary Ma…

“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.” Rebecca Solnit on the Odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | Lit Hub Criticism From Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to Brad Lander, Steven W. Thrasher examines the

“I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film 

“The waxing and waning fortunes of languages are inevitably historical and political questions, and these questions are likewise delirium-inducing if we sit with them honestly.” The benefits of being a polyglot (as a fiction writer). | Lit Hub Craft Dear

Rosa Campbell on how men responded to The Hite Report (and why we’re wrong about men and feminism). | Lit Hub Politics “For farmers, it costs real dollars—and not just rivers of sweat and tears—to care for what they love:

On physics, poetry, and how humans “are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them.” | Lit Hub Criticism How a pulp magazine built American science fiction: “For better

If you’re done with the “men don’t read” discourse, try reading about Kristopher Jansma’s all-male book club instead. | Lit Hub Craft  On Ezra Pound, Mussolini’s biggest fan: “…Pound lauded Mussolini’s accomplishments—such as reducing crime and improving Italy’s road and

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland gets a 21st century reassessment: “…the plot is set in motion by Reagan’s slashing of the federal government, unwittingly severing millions of connections, setting in motion events beyond anyone’s control, resurrecting the suppressed.” | Lit Hub Criticism How linguistic archeologists link humanity through the shared origins of modern languages: “I find all […]

Martha A. Sandweiss unearths the hidden power, privilege and violence behind a 19th century photograph of the American west.  | Lit Hub History Chloe Garcia Roberts on reasons for hope in the field of translation: “Is translation an art or an action? The answer is both…” | Lit Hub On Translation Inside the past and […]

Maris Kreizman on Meta’s AI and how one of the richest companies in the world is stealing from the rest of us. | Lit Hub Technology Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on how playing tennis helped manage her competitive tendencies while writing: “I do get frustrated at myself when I’m losing.” | Lit Hub Craft Jamie Hood […]