• Literary Criticism

    Language

    Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

    By Johanna Skibsrud  October 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
    a Cautionary Tale

    By Lauren Elkin  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

    By Jacek Dehnel  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

    By Karen Solie  October 1, 2019
    Influences

    Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
    I Needed to Write My Novel

    By Ocean Vuong  October 1, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters

    By Alberto Manguel  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  September 30, 2019
    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
    Australian Literature

    On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

    By Madeleine Watts  September 30, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

    By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
    Literary History

    The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

    By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    News and Culture

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Young Adult

    How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
    Animals

    Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous With
    Our Grief?

    By Rebecca Renner  September 25, 2019
    Folktales

    Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

    By Neil Gaiman  September 20, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

    By Rosa Boshier  September 20, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    Japan

    Pico Iyer on the Infinite
    Silences of Japan

    By Pico Iyer  September 18, 2019
    Literary History

    My First Library Was a Library of Porn

    By Brian D. Bouldrey  September 17, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women

    By Rachel Eve Moulton  September 17, 2019
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