• Craft and Criticism

    Palestinian Literature

    Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

    The Author of “Too Soon” Considers Her Novel in Relation to Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the Politics of Influence

     
    By Betty Samieh  January 22, 2025
    Recovery

    “When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

    By Matthew Nienow  January 22, 2025
    Palestinian Literature

    Listening to Palestinian Silences: On Fady Joudah’s [. . .]

    By Eman Quotah  January 22, 2025
    Awakeners

    Adrian Matejka and Austin Araujo Are “Whole-Neighborhood” Poets

    By Awakeners   January 22, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    John Vaillant on Fire Weather

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  January 22, 2025
    Publishing

    Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

    By Josh Cook  January 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Sara Sligar on Modernizing an 18th-Century Literary Cult Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 21, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 21, 2025
    Write-minded

    Lee Wind on Creating the Heroes You Want to See in the World

    By Write-minded   January 21, 2025
    Short Stories

    Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
    On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

    Garth Risk Hallberg Remembers a Master of the Short Form

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  January 22, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   January 17, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  January 17, 2025
    Girlhood

    Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

    By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

    “Remember that every bit of worldbuilding that makes it to the page adds to the set, and stage space is limited.”

    By Erika Swyler  January 17, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    Adaptations

    What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

    By Ariel Dorfman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    How to Talk About Your Own Book

    By Maris Kreizman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

    Publishing Legend Luis Schwarcz Considers the Nature of His Calling

    By Luis Schwarcz  January 16, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 16, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    Criticism by Jane Zwart, From the Latest Issue of “Image” Magazine

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    On Writing

    My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

    By Layne Fargo  January 15, 2025
    First Draft

    David Wroblewski on Writing by Brute Force

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 21, 2025
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