• Literary Criticism

    Literary History

    The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
    Moby Dick

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

    By Rachel Seiffert  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Encyclopedic Genius of
    Melville’s Masterpiece

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 1, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  July 31, 2019
    Poets

    Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
    of Heart and Humor

    By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
    About the Body

    On the Evolution of Fatness
    in Society

    By Christopher E. Forth  July 29, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

    By Kim-Marie Walker  July 26, 2019
    Gatekeeping

    Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

    By Marcos Gonsalez  July 26, 2019
    Writer's block

    Got Writer’s Block?
    Read This Poem

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 25, 2019
    Social Novels

    On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

    By Pramoedya Ananta Toer  July 25, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

    By Randon Billings Noble  July 24, 2019
    Correspondence

    On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

    By Howard Norman  July 24, 2019
    Criticism

    Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed
    With The Group

    By Mikaella Clements  July 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

    By Elizabeth Bales Frank  July 23, 2019
    Classics

    Was The Odyssey the First Greek Novel?

    By Michael Wood  July 22, 2019
    Criticism

    George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

    By Andrew Ervin  July 22, 2019
    Space!

    A Poet and a Novelist Discuss the Literary Allure of Outer Space

    By Zach Powers and Gale Marie Thompson  July 19, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson

    By CJ Hauser  July 18, 2019
    Singer Songwriters

    The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

    By Laura Barnett  July 18, 2019
    Criticism

    How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

    By Thomas Dai  July 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  July 17, 2019
    Literary History

    What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

    By Seán Hemingway  July 16, 2019
    Politics

    Brazil’s History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

    By Geovani Martins  July 16, 2019
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