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.

On Lit Hub dot com:

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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April 30, 2025

Today, we’re thinking about literature in the context of American politics, wondering why people slut shame cats(????), and looking back at the best book-related things from April!

On Lit Hub dot com:

Tobias Carroll explains what Elon Musk doesn’t understand about Iain M. Banks. | Lit Hub Criticism
Zoe Roth examines Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams in the context of here and now. | Lit Hub History
Don’t know what to watch next? Try some of the literary film and TV coming to streaming in May. | Lit Hub Film
Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Lower Than the Angels, David Szalay’s Flesh, and Elaine Pagels’ Miracles and Wonder all feature among April’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
“I was used to hearing human women slut-shamed; it was new to me that men would call cats sluts.” Courtney Gustafson explores casual misogyny in animal rescue. | Lit Hub Memoir
From contrasts to complimentary colors, theses are April’s best book covers. | Lit Hub Design
Get ready for paperbacks by Questlove, Tessa Hulls, and more in May! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
How London’s Great Plague of 1666 paved the way for modern scientific research: “Instead of cures, London’s medical men ultimately offered witness, up to the point of death.” | Lit Hub Health
Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated May audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“A series of details fell into place: the towel on the mirror, the strange words she’d uttered in her sleep, the content of her rant.” Read from Sarah Yahm’s new novel, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

How The Great Gatsby became an American classroom staple. | The New Yorker
Francis Northwood looks at the problematic business of the energy fueling AI. | The Baffler
Jackie Snow on what she learned about reading while working at a books to prisons nonprofit: “The thousands of letters I’ve read since that first day in 2017 made me confront my own literary prejudices.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sadie Stein remembers Jane Gardam, who has died at 96. | The New York Times
Feroz Rather talks to novelist and poet Aria Aber about language, dislocation, and excess. | Public Books
Natasha Lyonne is…making an AI film? | The Verge