• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

    By Danielle Dutton  June 21, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Literary History

    The Poet and the Monk:
    An Anne Sexton Love Story

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 20, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Emily Temple  June 20, 2019
    Criticism

    The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

    By Antonia Pont  June 20, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    “The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening”

    By Corinne Segal  June 19, 2019
    Rejection

    “Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  June 19, 2019
    News and Culture

    On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

    By Teresa Rose Carmody  June 19, 2019
    Literary Nemeses

    What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

    By Jen Corrigan  June 18, 2019
    Adaptations

    How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

    By Rebecca Renner  June 18, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    Kafka

    “Franz Kafka” the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

    By Renée Reizman  June 18, 2019
    Nigerian Literature

    How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

    By Nnamdi Ehirim  June 18, 2019
    Summer reading

    20 “Perfect Summer Books” for This and Every Year

    By Emily Temple  June 17, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Animals

    How to Eulogize an Animal

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

    By Jaime Fuller  June 11, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Nicole Dennis-Benn, Domenica Ruta, and More Take the LitHub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  June 11, 2019
    Black Bodies

    On Alabama’s Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women’s Bodies

    By Camille T. Dungy  June 11, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania

    By Barbara Hurd  June 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

    By Lauren Markham  June 10, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    Science fiction

    Why We Write About This Thing Called the Future

    By Naomi Alderman  June 7, 2019
    Dystopias

    With Apologies to Orwell, We’ve Gone Way Past 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 7, 2019
    Literary History

    Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 7, 2019
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