• Literary Criticism

    New in Nonfiction

    The Case Against R. Kelly is
    a Case Against Us

    By Treva Lindsey  June 6, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

    By Jay Parini  June 6, 2019
    Dystopias

    70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

    By John Rodden  June 5, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

    By Hanan al-Shaykh  June 5, 2019
    Literary History

    Pablo Neruda’s Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

    By Jamie James  June 3, 2019
    Rabbit Holes

    A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

    By Emily Temple  June 3, 2019
    Dictators

    The Dark Side of the
    Chinese Dream

    By Ma Jian  June 3, 2019
    Economics

    How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

    By Lisa Duggan  May 31, 2019
    Contemporary Classics

    Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

    By Dennis Tang  May 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  May 31, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unlikely Winner of the World’s Toughest Horse Race

    By Alyson Hagy  May 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

    By Lynn Steger Strong  May 30, 2019
    Literary History

    On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

    By Philip Eil  May 29, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

    By Tobias Carroll  May 29, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

    By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer  May 29, 2019
    Poets

    Jim Harrison’s Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

    By Dean Kuipers  May 28, 2019
    The West

    Hiking Cormac McCarthy’s Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

    By Raksha Vasudevan  May 28, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

    By Hamilton Cain  May 28, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Why We’ll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

    By Meg Donohue  May 28, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Groundbreaking Work

    By Billy Kahora  May 24, 2019
    Literary History

    On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

    By Jaime Fuller  May 24, 2019
    Notes on Twitter

    What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

    By Rebecca Brill  May 23, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

    By Veronica Esposito  May 22, 2019
    Protect Your Darlings

    Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

    By Brandon Taylor  May 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

    By Sara Collins  May 22, 2019
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