• Craft and Criticism

    Behind the Mic

    Ann Powers and Alison Fensterstock on How Women Made Music

    in conversation with AudioFile's Jo Reed

     
    By Behind the Mic   March 26, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

    By Jamie Hood  March 25, 2025
    Magazines

    Graydon Carter on
    The Golden Age of Magazines

    By Terry McDonell  March 25, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

    By The Critic and Her Publics   March 25, 2025
    Feminism

    Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

    By Roxane Gay  March 25, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

    By Binnie Kirshenbaum  March 25, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    craft advice

    The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

    By Sanam Mahloudji  March 25, 2025
    Art and Life

    A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

    By Peter Trachtenberg  March 25, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 25, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika

    By Molly Odintz  March 25, 2025
    Love Stories

    On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

    By Emily Usher  March 24, 2025
    Blackness

    Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

    By Mia Fowler  March 24, 2025
    Poetry

    Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2025
    First Draft

    Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 24, 2025
    Write-minded

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting

    By Write-minded   March 24, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

    By Julia Hass  March 21, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Choosing the Books For White Lotus and Much More

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   March 21, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

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

    Featuring Kristen Arnett, McCarthyism, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and More

    By Book Marks  March 21, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    “Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

    By Elissa Altman  March 21, 2025
    Brain Injury

    A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

    By Samina Ali  March 21, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Duplex by Kathryn Davis

    By Emily Temple  March 20, 2025
    MAGA

    Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

    Gabrielle Bellot on the Empty Suits Destroying the Country

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2025
    Illness

    On Writing the Hospital

    By Madeleine Wulfahrt  March 20, 2025
    Italian Literature

    The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

    By Anthony Doerr  March 20, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

    By Drew Broussard  March 24, 2025
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