Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

”They take you—for one evening if you don't put it down, longer if you draw it out—to a place that you can see in sharp detail.”

By Victoria Shorr | May 17, 2022

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

The Author of Forbidden City Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2022

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to <em>Bridgerton</em>

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances

By Hilary A. Hallett | May 16, 2022

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How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

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The Purpose of Book Bans Is to Make Queer Kids Scared

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Lev AC Rosen on Having His Book Banned, and the Repetition of History

By Lev AC Rosen | May 13, 2022

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

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“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

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

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Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

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

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

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

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