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

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

Askold Melnyczuk on the Assault on a Country’s Literature

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 11, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher

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

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

Brad Listi on Resisting the Siren Call of the Static

In Conversation with Steve Almond on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 11, 2022

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Shoshana Olidort on Erika Meitner's Useful Junk

By Shoshana Olidort | May 11, 2022

Donna Barba Higuera on Following the Storytelling Traditions of Her Family

Donna Barba Higuera on Following the Storytelling Traditions of Her Family

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 11, 2022

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

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

Sara Franklin Talks to the Author of The Hurting Kind

By Sara B. Franklin | May 10, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

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

By Jennifer Weiner | May 10, 2022

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

By Carlo Rovelli | May 10, 2022

Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel

By Bud Smith | May 10, 2022

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

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

Alison Espach, Brad Listi, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | May 10, 2022

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

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

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

By The Cosmic Library | May 10, 2022

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

Emmeline Clein on the American Tradition of Fetishizing Women Writers, Then Forgetting Them

By Emmeline Clein | May 9, 2022

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

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

Colin Barrett on the Importance Letting His Characters Talk a Little Shite

By Colin Barrett | May 9, 2022

Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

Michael Blanding in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 9, 2022

Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 9, 2022

On the Moment Darrel Alejandro Holnes Started to Identify as a Poet

On the Moment Darrel Alejandro Holnes Started to Identify as a Poet

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 9, 2022

Page 189 of 352

  • 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