• Literary Criticism

    Politics

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

     
    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Dan Sheehan  July 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  July 31, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

    By AudioFile Magazine  July 31, 2025
    literary criticism

    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    In Conversation

    Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

    By Eric Olson  July 30, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  July 30, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 30, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ed Park Can’t Stop Thinking About Zabar’s Strudel

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 31, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

    By Ha Jin  July 28, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

    By Philip Nel  July 28, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Michael Clune, the Everly Brothers, Linn Ullman, and More

    By Book Marks  July 25, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Temptress, Shapeshifter, Bird, Fish: Seven Books That Explore the Myths of Sirens

    By Kalie Cassidy  July 25, 2025
    Craft

    On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 25, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 24, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    Emily Van Duyne Reads Jamie Hood, Amie Souza Reilly, Zadie Smith, and Edward Said

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith, and American Authoritarians

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 24, 2025
    Hybridity

    On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

    By Melody Glenn  July 23, 2025
    On Faith

    Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences

    By Terry Nguyen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    Benjamin Balthaser on Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the Paradoxes of Left-Wing Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    Surrealism

    Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

    By Celia Bell  July 22, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Literary Locales Found on No Map: Five Novels Set in Realistic But Imaginary Places

    By Dan Fesperman  July 22, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rax King! Writers on writing! Gwyneth Paltrow? 16 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 29, 2025
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