Literary Hub
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
BUY A HAT
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
The Best of the Decade
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
BUY A HAT
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
The Best of the Decade
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
Alissa Quart
Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls
Alissa Quart on the Social Class Kitsch Behind One of the Weirder Moments in Recent Politics
By
Alissa Quart
| May 12, 2025
JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives
Alissa Quart on the Art of the Deal of the Hillbilly
By
Alissa Quart
| July 18, 2024
Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer
Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life
By
Alissa Quart
| April 15, 2024
“Zombies,” a Poem by Alissa Quart
“When I don’t report on others / I report on myself.”
By
Alissa Quart
| December 1, 2023
Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance
Alissa Quart on the Bootstrap Narratives of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By
Alissa Quart
| March 20, 2023
The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work
Alissa Quart Introduces Four Poems by Toscano
By
Alissa Quart
| March 4, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald
By
Alissa Quart
| July 28, 2020
'Late Capitalism,' a Prose Poem by Alissa Quart
By
Alissa Quart
| August 22, 2019
The Best Fiction in Translation of Fall 2025
November 21, 2025
by
Molly Odintz
“Whoever Wrote this Episode Should Die":
Galaxy Quest
Is Personal, and it's Personal to Me
November 21, 2025
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Breaking In: A Field Guide to Heist Plot Types
November 21, 2025
by
Norman Birnbach and Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"
