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Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels

Gyles Brandreth Explores the Adult Side of an Iconic Children’s Author
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The Literary Hub Gift Guide:
50 Gifts for Writers

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On the Infinite Lives of the Library

Steve Edwards Loves Nothing More Than Library Hours
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3 Ways to Become a Better Reader

Hwang Bo-Reum on Little Ways to Cultivate Your Reading (and Writing) Life

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

By Colin Dickey

How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats

By Susannah Fullerton

The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025

By Literary Hub

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

By Philip Boehm

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

By Brendan Mac Evilly

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

By Catharina Coenen

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

By Literary Hub

“Le Chien,” a Poem by Billy Collins

By Billy Collins

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Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write

By Memoir Nation

Megha Majumdar on the Joy of Asking Questions

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks

What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

By Itoro Bassey

How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

December 9, 2025

The Best Debut Crime Novels of 2025

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Queer Crime Writers Presents: 10 New LGBTQIA+ Crime Novels to Check Out This Winter

By Queer Crime Writers

The Best Books of 2025: Crime Fiction, Mysteries, and Thrillers

By CrimeReads

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

By Colin Dickey

The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025

By Literary Hub

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

By Colin Dickey

You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.

By James Folta

Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.

By Drew Broussard

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

By Philip Boehm

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

By Catharina Coenen

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta