• Literary Criticism

    Book Bans

    The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

    By Lev AC Rosen  May 13, 2022
    On Poetry

    Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

    By John Higgs  May 13, 2022
    News and Culture

    2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

    By Philip Freeman  May 13, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  May 13, 2022
    New Books Network

    Erica Ruth Neubauer on Mysteries, Her Many Careers, and the Google Search That Started Her Novel

    By New Books Network  May 13, 2022
    Publishing

    Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

    By Jennifer Huang  May 12, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 12, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Michelle Hart on Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Shame in Storytelling

    By The Maris Review  May 12, 2022
    Classic Literature

    “Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

    By Krithika Varagur  May 12, 2022
    Asian American Literature

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

    By Katie Yee  May 12, 2022
    Ukraine

    The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

    By Askold Melnyczuk  May 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

    By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman  May 11, 2022
    Otherppl

    Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 11, 2022
    On Poetry

    Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

    By Shoshana Olidort  May 11, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Donna Barba Higuera on Following the Storytelling Traditions of Her Family

    By NewberyTart   May 11, 2022
    Poetry

    “To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project

    By Sara B. Franklin  May 10, 2022
    Book Covers

    Jennifer Weiner: How Plus-Size Women Finally—Finally!—Landed on Book Covers

    By Jennifer Weiner  May 10, 2022
    Physics

    Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

    By Carlo Rovelli  May 10, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel

    By Bud Smith  May 10, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  May 10, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 10, 2022
    Forgotten Classics

    Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

    By Emmeline Clein  May 9, 2022
    On Writing

    Whatever Ideas About Writing You Have It’s Really Just Something You Do (Or Don’t)

    By Colin Barrett  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2022
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