• Literary Criticism

    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
    Happy Birthday Iris Murdoch

    A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch’s
    The Bell

    By A. S. Byatt  July 15, 2019
    Close Reading

    An Object Lesson in Naming Novels: Iris Murdoch’s
    The Sea, The Sea

    By Emily Temple  July 15, 2019
    Virginia Woolf

    Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become Mrs Dalloway

    By Michael Cunningham  July 15, 2019
    Feminist Classics

    Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

    By Leni Zumas  July 15, 2019
    Criticism

    Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 12, 2019
    Personal Essay

    To Tell the Story of a Brother
    I Will Never Know

    By Marian Ryan  July 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

    By Saskia Vogel  July 12, 2019
    Bad Reviews

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Emily Temple  July 11, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

    By Miciah Bay Gault  July 11, 2019
    Criticism

    On Hunger, Women’s Bodies, and Margaret Atwood’s First Novel

    By Lara Williams  July 10, 2019
    Literary History

    Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

    By Irene Goldman-Price  July 9, 2019
    Art and Politics

    The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

    By Madeline ffitch  July 9, 2019
    Tragicomedy

    How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

    By Barbara Bourland  July 2, 2019
    Whitman

    Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

    By Ted Widmer  July 2, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

    By Domenico Starnone  June 28, 2019
    Poets

    Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

    By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

    By Amanda Rea  June 28, 2019
    In This Essay I Will...

    Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

    By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
    Political Literature

    We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell’s 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 27, 2019
    Gay Icons

    On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
    Motherhood

    Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

    By Alix Ohlin  June 26, 2019
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