• Literary Criticism

    Influences

    Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

    By Rajia Hassib  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
    A Letter From Gregory Pardlo

    By Gregory Pardlo  August 19, 2019
    Fascism

    Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

    By Francesco Pacifico  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

    By Kanako Nishi  August 19, 2019
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Lolita

    By Emily Temple  August 16, 2019
    Drugs

    Plunging Into the 1970s’ Altered States of Awareness

    By Buzz Poole  August 16, 2019
    Romance

    Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother’s Romance Novels

    By Isabelle Davis  August 15, 2019
    Literary History

    Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

    By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
    Reading Lists

    A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

    By Abby Manzella  August 13, 2019
    Sex Poems

    On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

    By Lauren Cocking  August 9, 2019
    Tributes

    11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

    By Emily Temple  August 9, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  August 9, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

    By Stephanie Toliver  August 8, 2019
    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Expatriates

    We’ll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

    By Elliott Holt  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
    Reading Lists

    What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

    By Kate McQuade  August 6, 2019
    Fragmentary Essays

    One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  August 6, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Toward a Theory of the New Weird

    By Elvia Wilk  August 5, 2019
    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    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
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