Craft and Criticism

Science Writing

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

Randi Hutter Epstein: When Even Science Isn't An Exact Science

 
By Randi Hutter Epstein  July 17, 2019
Literary History

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  July 17, 2019
Reading Lists

In Which Colson Whitehead is Highly Concerned with the Exploration of Inner Space

By Literary Hub  July 16, 2019
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
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
In Conversation

John Waters on Taking LSD at 70, Clarence Thomas, and Reading Bad Reviews

By Maris Kreizman  July 15, 2019
Close Reading

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

By Emily Temple  July 15, 2019
Religion

How Extreme Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Entered American Life

By Zahra Noorbakhsh  July 15, 2019
Criticism

How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

Thomas Dai on the Poems of Kai Carlson-Wee and Jenny Xie

By Thomas Dai  July 17, 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
Sex

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

"We're all capable of throwing everything away in a moment, if the desire is strong enough."

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
Literary Criticism

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

By Miciah Bay Gault  July 11, 2019
TV

How General Hospital Inspired My New Novel

By Marcy Dermansky  July 11, 2019
Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Chuck Wendig on the Time He Enraged a Bunch of Tolkienites

The Author of Wanderers Answers a Few Questions...

By Literary Hub  July 10, 2019
Criticism

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

By Lara Williams  July 10, 2019
In Conversation

Arundhati Roy: Stories ‘Must Not Lose Their Wilderness’

By Siddhartha Deb  July 10, 2019
Writing

The Liberation and Consternation of Writing a Whole Book with Paper and Pen

By Jeff Gordinier  July 10, 2019
Literary History

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

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

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

By Madeline ffitch  July 9, 2019
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Courtney Maum, Rawi Hage, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne  July 9, 2019
Virginia Woolf

Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become Mrs Dalloway

By Michael Cunningham  July 15, 2019
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