Ben Lerner

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ahmad Almallah is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Sylvia Plath, Ben Lerner, Ghassan Kanafani, and More

 
By Diana Arterian  November 2, 2023
Daily Fiction

“The Pistil”

By Ben Lerner  September 7, 2023
New Books Tuesdays

There are 26 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot  September 5, 2023
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: Reading About Writers with Peter Ho Davies

By Peter Ho Davies  September 6, 2022
On Poetry

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

By D.S. Waldman  August 15, 2022
Criticism

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

By Stephen Marche  September 15, 2021
New York City

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
The Internet

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

By Shya Scanlon  June 17, 2021
Interview with an Indie Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Coffee House Press

By Corinne Segal  April 2, 2021
Autofiction

Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
Literary Tourism

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
Essential Reading

The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages

By Emily Temple  May 11, 2020
The Hub

Here are the winners of this year’s LA Times Book Prizes.

By Katie Yee  April 17, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What Will Happen to the Novel
After This?

By Emily Temple  April 7, 2020
The Hub

The L.A. Times announces its 2019 Book Prize finalists and a new award for science fiction.

By Katie Yee  February 19, 2020
The Hub

Here’s the longlist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

By Jessie Gaynor  February 7, 2020
The Writing Life

What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

By Dan Bevacqua  February 4, 2020
The Decade That Was

100 Books That Defined the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 28, 2019
The Best of the Decade

The 20 Best Novels of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2019
The Best of the Decade

The 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2019
Book Covers

The 10 Best Book Covers
of October

By Emily Temple  October 30, 2019
Poets

Ben Lerner Talks to Ocean Vuong About Love, Whiteness, and Toxic Masculinity

By Ocean Vuong  October 15, 2019
What to Read

12 Books You Should Read
This October

By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  October 2, 2019
The Hub

8 brand new books you should pick up this week.

By Emily Temple  October 1, 2019
Literary Criticism

When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
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