Literary Hub

Literary takeaways from the 2025 film festival circuit.

The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Villains: Dan Sheehan on Frankenstein's Monster.

The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

A few good books about too-good-to-be-true tech (to read after your Tesla explodes).

The Last Man"> A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel <em

The Last Man">A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

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“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

Turns out there's an actual Frankenstein Castle in Germany—complete with legendary mad scientist.

Back to School for Everyone: Speculative Women with Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Frankenstein"> The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired <em

Frankenstein">The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

1,001 Nights"> Jim Al-Khalili on the Science of <em

1,001 Nights">Jim Al-Khalili on the Science of 1,001 Nights

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