Agnes Callard on Socrates’ Turf
Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking…
Category: Books
How Should ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Be Taught?
I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in…
Iceland’s Murder Rate Is Off the Charts (in Its Books, at Least)
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers…
Lit Hub Daily: August 24, 2026
How surveillance technology infuses policing with even more racial bias. | Lit Hub Politics Why studying Goldilocks can…
Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday
Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday…
Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction
I published my first novel twenty-five years ago. It was not a masterpiece, but to me it was…
Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis
Years ago, during the Great Recession, I attended an event sponsored by an environmental organization that had formed…
How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing
Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that…
Book Review: ‘The Time Tax,’ by Annie Lowrey
In “The Time Tax,” the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.…
Book Review: ‘Heart of Glass,’ by Jennifer Hillier
In Jennifer Hillier’s new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on…