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On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

Bad Reviews, Disastrous Elections, and the Intellectual State of Play in 1964 New York

November 12, 2019

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Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

How a Writer is Shaped By Perpetual Exile

November 11, 2019

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On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting

November 11, 2019

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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

November 8, 2019

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How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

Rethinking Ways of Describing Climate Change As It Is Lived

November 7, 2019

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Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich

November 6, 2019

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On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

November 6, 2019

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The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction
of the Decade

In which we cheated.

November 5, 2019

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Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Clémentine Goldszal on La Rentrée Littéraire

November 4, 2019

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What Makes Good Comfort Food? Writers in Conversation

With Mira Jacob, Maile Meloy, Emily Raboteau, and Diana Abu-Jaber

November 1, 2019

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André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

Catching Up Over Coffee with the Author of Call Me By Your Name

November 1, 2019

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American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

October 31, 2019

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The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

October 29, 2019

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The Latest

The Best of the Decade

The 10 Best Translated Novels
of the Decade

tr. tr. tr.

By Emily Temple November 12, 2019

Russian Literature

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

Sara Wheeler on Constance Garnett and the Problem
of Era-Specific Translations

By Sara Wheeler November 12, 2019

Writing Recommendations

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

Advice for Writers on Editing, Revising, and Taking Notes

By Lydia Davis November 12, 2019

The Writing Life

Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

On a 20th-Century Writers' Paradise

By Thomas Travisano November 12, 2019

Climate Activism

Greta Thunberg: “This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”

Read the 16-year-old Climate Activist's Urgent
Speech to United States Congress

By Greta Thunberg November 12, 2019

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Literature and Politics

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

By Ava Homa November 12, 2019

Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

By Teddy Wayne November 12, 2019

It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

When Bad Studies Become Pro-War Political Tools

It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis November 12, 2019

Medieval History

Spanking, Signing, Reading:
On the Medieval Use of Hands

By Jack Hartnell November 12, 2019

Why Do We Run? On the Art of the Marathon Memoir

By James M. Chesbro November 12, 2019

Five Books that Influenced My Writing Life

November 12, 2019 By Jane Ciabattari

15 of the Best Queer Debuts of 2019

November 11, 2019 By Sarah Neilson

The Most Terrifying Home Invasions in Fiction

November 12, 2019 By Michael Seidlinger

When You Write Your Worst Fears in Your Novel—And Then They Come True

November 12, 2019 By Amber Cowie

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