“First of all, it’s not accurate to describe a feature that pulls you away from reading as something that helps you ‘stay immersed.’”

This year, New Yorkers loved James, The God of the Woods, and Onyx Storm!

Meet Equator, a cool magazine.

Publishing parties used to go hard.

Watch some movies over the holidays. Your local indie theater will thank you. lithub.com/two-stories-...

“There’s so much book in that book.” Kat Abughazaleh on loving sci-fi (and fan fiction).

Gary Knight recommends five essential books about the Vietnam War’s most important photographs and the people who took them.

Two outsiders venture into a forbidden kingdom in this stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century, [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Enjoy a free copy of Ariel Sullivan’s Conform poolside when you book a day pass through ResortPass. [Sponsored] new.resortpass.com/daywellread/

“We don’t realize that nearly one in every two people involved with the criminal justice system has had a brain injury—before they ever step foot into a cell.” Molly Gaudry, Carmen Giménez, and D/ANNIE LIONTAS discuss health, identity, and invisible injury.

Sara Martin considers boarding house poetics and communal living as writing craft.

From the Booker to the Giller, the Kirkus to the Edgar, these books took home 2025’s biggest prizes in fiction.

Congressional candidate and staunch anti-ICE activist @katmabu.bsky.social loves sci-fi and... One Direction fan fiction.

Terry McDonell talks to Tom Freston about co-founding MTV and hitchhiking the Sahara: “We made it look chaotic on purpose. Underneath it all, there was a very clear methodology.”

fun to reflect on a year of great writing at Lit Hub, and nice to have a moment to (personally) reflect on a conversation I had nearly a year ago now that I've thought about more or less every week since

1/4 Holy Fuck, I am honoured to appear alongside Kazuo Ishiguro (!!!!), author of one of my favourite novels of all time (The Remains of the Day) on @literaryhub.bsky.social 's"Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2025"!! lithub.com/our-favorite...

“Many Ukrainians are exhausted. What helps—I say this with some sarcasm—is that we don’t really have a choice. Putin’s war aims to exterminate Ukraine as such. It doesn’t necessarily mean death camps, but we all know what “re-education” means.” An extremely powerful conversation:

This was a fun one to put together! Got to admit to being a Latin nerd and obsessed with the Aubreyad

Just found out that my essay about Lana Clarkson, myself, and the many other promising young women who have had their lives derailed by men was named as a staff favorite for 2025. I am so honored. More confirmation that my essay found exactly the right home with this wonderful publication.

Just grateful to Lit Hub for finally publishing this one, which I'd worked on for like ~5 years ... and at times figured I'd just never publish, as the piece itself explains ...

Two recommendations from the three large sons canon (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

We published over 2,500 pieces in 2025. These are the ones you clicked on the most.

“I understand the nature of war—writing about war, living through war—and why war is an indelible, horrible experience, yet absolutely central in human history.” On the history and future of authoritarianism, war, and literature in Europe.

“Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.” The 10 best book reviews of 2025.

@tsvoboda.bsky.social on mixing personal memories with public histories (and what her mother-in-law has to do with Hitler).

Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t actually care about romance? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this and other questions about your literary drama.

@sandyernestallen.bsky.social reckons with Harry Potter as a trans person: “I’d often look at that Harry Potter blockade and wonder why I was clinging to them, especially if their author thought so little of my humanity.”

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about my deep sadness and anger about Gaza, months into the "ceasefire," as well as about my feelings about Northwestern's deal with Trump lithub.com/feeling-deep...

NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed fiction writer and long-time creative writing professor Elizabeth McCracken joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her ninth book and first volume about craft, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/elizabeth-mc...

"Near daily I think of billionaire Rowling, and I just feel sad for her. As much anger as I feel towards her—and towards all transphobes, however active and powerful—I feel sorry for her, is my truth." new piece out today from me, from @literaryhub.bsky.social ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

We’re proud of everything we publish, but we definitely have our favorites. These are the Lit Hub stories our staff loved in 2025.

Exploring David Thoreau’s Kalendar, a tool for tracking natural phenomena: “Anticipating the way that clock time would be harnessed to control human labor and thought, Thoreau sought an alternative to living that is also an alternative to his culture’s temporal conventions.”

Twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States & National Book Award winner Arthur Sze has partnered with the Museum of New Mexico Press in Santa Fe to release his first book on craft. The White Orchard is now available at mnmpress.org?p=allBooks&i... [Sponsored]

In a lighthouse off the coast of Norway, a book is found in a small boat. It contains pictures and stories, and tells the tale of an island lost a century before, and of the community that lived there—people, animals, and mythical beings. [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/time...

@cartoonkate.bsky.social looks at how Jane Austen’s family (and their socioeconomic status) nurtured the iconic author’s writing.

“On a cold afternoon in the heart of Greenwich Village, Margaret C. Anderson bumped into the man who wanted to put her in prison.” How New York State almost banned Ulysses.

Why Virginia Woolf thought Katharine Mansfield stank like a “civet cat taken to streetwalking.”

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@thrasherxy.bsky.social on carrying sadness and managing anger in the face of the West’s crimes in Gaza.

Because you asked for it (you ask for it every year). These are the most scathing book reviews of 2025.

“One of his charms lay in a certain boyish zest with which he welcomed everything that happened to him…” David S. Brown on Theodore Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics. lithub.com/the-groundbr...

@tarpley.bsky.social chronicles the intense international legal battle over Barbie dolls (and their imitators).

Can bibliotherapy heal the world? “The text is a springboard for exploring issues of family, relationships, anxiety and trauma.”

@jenpercy.bsky.social explores the stories of love and sex addicts and how trauma can underpin the human need for connection.

Titles by Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and more are among the best reviewed nonfiction books of 2025.

In honor of her 250th birthday, join us on a literary pilgrimage to Jane Austen’s England. lithub.com/take-a-liter...

Why read 58 best books lists when you can just read one? This is the ultimate best books list for 2025.

Fact checkers looked at the viral claim about Cratchit's cash, which was more complicated than I anticipated

Mushrooms, campfires, and Ishiguro

Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for naming my publishing essay the 20th biggest literary story of the year! lithub.com/the-50-bigge...