• Literary Criticism

    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    Cities

    How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

    By Sam Wasson  February 7, 2020
    Queer Lit

    Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

    By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    Literary History

    Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
    To Write?

    By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    News and Culture

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

    By Melissa Mesku  February 3, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Literary Community

    How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

    By Mark Gustafson  January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    Open Letters

    Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

    By 141 Writers  January 29, 2020
    Self-Help?

    When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

    By Beth Blum  January 29, 2020
    Children's Lit

    On One of the Greatest Children’s Ghost Books Ever Published

    By Jessica Mesman Griffith  January 29, 2020
    The Robots

    The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

    By Dennis Tang  January 27, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
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