Anna Fiteni explores what Welsh culture has to do with Fleetwood Mac, Lord of the Rings, Hayao Miyazaki, and more.
August 29, 2025
Today, we round up the best book covers of August, meditate on why we write, and examine the horrifying parallels between the genocides in Srebrenica and Gaza, and more.
- Our favorite August book covers are all about paintings, text treatments, and more than one dog. | Lit Hub Design
- On the chilling parallels between genocide in Srebrenica and genocide in Gaza: “When we comb through the layers of complicity, we find more than just power-hungry politicians and bloodthirsty generals.” | Lit Hub Politics
- This week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Radium Age superheroes and nightstand TBRs! | Lit Hub Radio
- Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Nicholas Boggs’ James Baldwin: A Love Story, Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Peter Ames Carlin’s Tonight in Jungleland, and Jason Mott’s People Like Us all feature among August’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Maybe you don’t need to stream these literary films and TV shows, but we definitely think you should. | Lit Hub Film
- “What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?” Douglas Unger on discovering why you write. | Lit Hub Craft
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine round up their most anticipated audiobooks of September. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “We fell into a long silence, which I later regretted. The quiet in the air held too much meaning for two strangers making small talk.” Read from Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon, translated by Yuki Tejima. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- “It’s an atrocity recorded live”: Aymann Ismail on the 189 Palestinian journalists that Israel has killed. | Slate
- Joanna Pocock explores America by Greyhound, and considers the “overlooked ecosystem” that includes the buses. | Orion
- “Novels that are set in the suburbs continue to be written and published…But the suburban novel was more than that.” Adelle Waldman asks, what happened to the suburban novel? | New York Review of Books
- No, there isn’t a crisis of “hypersensitivity” in publishing. | The Baffler
- Mae Losasso on why Alice Notley’s writing “resists easy absorption.” | n+1
- Nicholas Quah explores the impossibility of a podcast canon: “The medium is just two decades old, yet whole swaths of its history have already been lost: feeds taken offline, platforms shuttered, files no longer hosted.” | Vulture
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May 30, 2025
Today, Ocean Vuong waxes poetic about Sufjan Stevens, we highlight the literary film and TV arriving in June, and Anna Mitchael discusses ghostwriting!
- Ocean Vuong remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell for the first time: “The songs prove that we were here. They are made of air—and yet we walk on them.” | Lit Hub Music
- “I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine.” Read Michelle de Kretser’s acceptance speech for the 2025 Stella Prize. | Lit Hub Politics
- Anna Mitchael recalls falling into ghostwriting “like one might fall into a hole.” | Lit Hub Craft
- From the classic to contemporary, these are the pieces of literary film and TV coming to streaming in June. | Lit Hub Film
- June brings paperbacks from Helen Philips, Frederick Seidel, Tiya Miles, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness, Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain, Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director, and Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? all feature among May’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated June audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “It’s been wrapped in a plastic bag and buried in a drawer ever since I brought it here from the old house along with all my other so-called valuables.” Read from Fatma Qandil’s novel Empty Cages, translated by Adam Talibv. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
- Remembering Susan Brownmiller, the radical feminist author of Against Our Will. | The New Republic
- Watch Abraham Verghese confront the Trump administration in his Harvard commencement speech (and explain why we all need to read fiction). | PBS NewsHour
- “Consumerism and individualism are very powerful, and it’s just very hard to sustain communal values on a large scale in a modern capitalist economy.” John Cassidy and James Surowiecki discuss the past, present, and possible future of capitalism. | The Yale Review
- Emma Adler considers two recent novels inspired by Chekhov and explains why he’s the perfect muse for chroniclers of the Covid era. | Public Books
- Greg Hunter looks at the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. | The Comics Journal
- Trevin Corsiglia on how Walt Whitman used photography to construct his image. | The Conversation