This tender story will make you wonder about almond-shaped amygdalae, being young and different, and being a parent witnessing it all.

These chosen one YA novels paint fantastic and compelling worlds for our protagonists to work their way through on their hero journeys.

October is bringing a slew of great new superhero comics to your local comic book shop. Here are six that you need to add to your pull list.

These skull and skeleton book gifts are scary cute.

If you like your thrills on both the scary and maybe sexy side, these horroromance novels combine everything we love about horror and romance.

Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, certainly didn’t see a need to clock in every

Before the war, I worked as an English language teacher at a kindergarten in the Gaza Strip. In the evenings, I gave private lessons to students at my own educational centre beneath my house. I had been working since university,

Last fall in Maine, my eleven-year-old son contacted a sharpshooter and requested two deer heads. Once or twice a year on Peaks Island, where we live, a professional marksman ventures into the woods at night to cull deer and maintain

More than twenty years ago, I walked into Kremer Pigment, a small shop in lower Manhattan, and by the time I left, I had the idea for a novel—a story about pigment—and had signed up for a workshop in traditional

When my essay about paying for $42,000 worth of dental work with sugar baby money first ran in HuffPost Personal, I was thrilled. Having only published in small literary magazines before, I wasn’t used to the feeling of strangers actually

Dystopian fiction is getting real, and I’m here for it. I don’t think I’m the only one. There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world. As a science fiction reader and avid fan, I find that dystopian

Lucas, His Communications Since he not only writes but likes to go over to the other side and read what others write, Lucas is surprised sometimes at how difficult it turns out to be for him to understand some things.

A high-­altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and brisk, but the sun is piercing—­a combination I am familiar with from years of living and traveling in South America’s Andean range. […]

I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and years later, during a brief stint as managing editor of the translation press Autumn Hill Books, I was lucky enough to edit Alex’s first book-length […]

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Who is your girl? Where is she going? I learned these two questions from Project Runway, the fashion reality show, which I watched delightedly for several early seasons before realizing that the show’s design advice could be upcycled, as they say, into writing wisdom. Sometimes […]

"Science Under Siege," by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week.

Here are 15 of the seasonal queer reads on my October TBR, from sapphic gothics to trans horror to an asexual haunted house romance and more.

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. Spooky season is upon us! It’s Drew’s favorite month and he’s got a whole stack of Hallow-reads to keep him company — which has him in generally good spirits […]

The average age of the most banned books in America is higher than the young people those bans seek to "protect."

To quote 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.

After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father watched on. Conor was stoic and threw his black necktie over one shoulder as he set to shovelling spade after […]

Lily King’s Heart the Lover, Mariana Enriquez’s Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, and Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Pick a Color all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove) 8 Rave • 1 […]

Discovering Souvankham Thammavongsa’s stories had been accidental, or what I would call serendipity. To me, her stories depict a necessary form of hope. In fall of 2021, I had just returned to the USA after spending six months post-pandemic at home in India, when my homesick heart returned to Thammavongsa’s story collection How to Pronounce […] The post A Novel Exploring the Power Dynamics of Working at a Nail Salon appeared first on Electric Literature.