Why Margot Harrison Staged a Murder Mystery in Her Former Workplace

Why Margot Harrison Staged a Murder Mystery in Her Former Workplace

The author of "The Library of Fates" on using real places to imagine bookish deaths

By Margot Harrison | December 4, 2025

6 Books About the Perils of Memory Manipulation

6 Books About the Perils of Memory Manipulation

Margot Harrison on fiction where past and present are merged and transformed.

By Margot Harrison | October 3, 2024

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of <em>Yellowjackets</em>

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of Yellowjackets

Or, suspenseful novels to distract you from screaming "Who is pit girl?"

By Margot Harrison | November 13, 2023

Caves, Cellars, Crawl Spaces: The Power of Dark Passages in Suspense Fiction

Caves, Cellars, Crawl Spaces: The Power of Dark Passages in Suspense Fiction

"[C]aves, basements, and crawl spaces are our ways of visualizing the dark places within our own minds."

By Margot Harrison | July 18, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

  • Support Us!

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member