• Craft and Criticism

    Publishing

    Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

    In Which Maris Kreizman Attempts to Take Her Own Advice

     
    By Maris Kreizman  June 20, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  June 20, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 20, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

    By Kate McKean  June 20, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 20, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 20, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Pen names

    How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

    By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott  June 20, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

    By Jane Smiley  June 20, 2025
    Indian Literature

    Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

    By Radha Vatsal  June 20, 2025
    Free Speech

    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    From Kamila Shamsie’s English PEN Lecture

    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 20, 2025
    Reading

    Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading

    By Donna Seaman  June 18, 2025
    Queer Books

    “I Feed on Queer Literature.” Michelle Tea on Her Ten Favorite Gay Books

    By Michelle Tea  June 18, 2025
    Film

    Why America Can’t Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz

    Hazel Gaynor Celebrates the Films, Prequels, Sequels, and More

    By Hazel Gaynor  June 18, 2025
    Short Stories

    Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

    By Joanna Walsh  June 18, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 18, 2025
    Thresholds

    Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

    By Thresholds   June 18, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Niall Ferguson and Evan Osnos on Henry Kissinger

    live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  June 18, 2025
    Reissues

    How to Teach a Controversial Novel of Racial and Sexual Violence in 2025

    By erin Khuê Ninh  June 17, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Leo Carey on What’s Not There

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 17, 2025
    Irish Literature

    Immaculate, Erotic and Quintessentially Modern: On Edna O’Brien’s Night

    By Jane Alison  June 17, 2025
    Class

    What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

    Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions

    By Lee Cole  June 17, 2025
    Florida

    Five Essential Books About Florida (If You’re a Canadian Writing a Novel About Orlando)

    By Grace Flahive  June 17, 2025
    In Conversation

    Michelle Huneven on Writing a Polyphonic, Decade-Spanning Family Saga

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 17, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

    By Siouxzi Connor  June 20, 2025
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