• Craft and Criticism

    Children's Literature

    In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jannson’s Characters

    Christiana Spens Returns to Her Father’s world (and the Beloved Moomin Books)

     
    By Christiana Spens  November 20, 2024
    Religion

    Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

    By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
    Diaries

    How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

    By Carl Rollyson  November 19, 2024
    American Literature

    What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

    By Edwin Frank  November 19, 2024
    Illness

    Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

    By Traci Brimhall  November 19, 2024
    Awakeners

    Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

     November 19, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    New Books Tuesdays

    Haruki Murakami! Sondheim! Parks and Rec! 23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 19, 2024
    The Hub

    I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are… not great!

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2024
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    Write-minded

    Carvell Wallace on Embracing Contradiction

    By Write-minded   November 18, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Rosenfeld

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 18, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Richard Price, Joan Didion & Eve Babitz, Katherine Rundell, and More

    By Book Marks  November 15, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Adrian Tomine on Building a Creative Career

    By Adrian Tomine  November 15, 2024
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Love Interbellum”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

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

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 14, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 14, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  November 14, 2024
    What If?

    Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

    By Padma Viswanathan  November 14, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

    Featuring Susan Stewart, Taban Lo Liyong, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, and Others

    By Diana Arterian  November 14, 2024
    Parenthood

    “She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

    By Olivia A. Cole  November 14, 2024
    National Book Awards

    Meet the 2024 National Book
    Award Finalists

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2024
    The Writing Life

    A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

    By Bryan VanDyke  November 18, 2024
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