Craft and Criticism

Classic Novels

On the Unpublished Ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Other Mysteries

Romy Ash Wanders Through an Iconic Australian Novel

 
By Romy Ash  November 15, 2019
New Books Network

Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
Public Intellectuals

The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
True Crime

The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Wild Ecologies: So Go the Salmon, So Goes the World

By Fiction Non Fiction  November 14, 2019
Craft

Lessons in worldbuilding from N. K. Jemisin (plus a preview of her next book).

By Aaron Robertson  November 13, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Teachers

High School Crush: On Literary Longing and Misdirected Lust

By Janet Manley  November 13, 2019
Love

Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

By Marie Robert  November 13, 2019
Language

Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
Witches

In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

Amanda Yates Garcia on Witchcraft and Writer's Block

By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
Russian Literature

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
The Writing Life

Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
Writing Recommendations

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

By Lydia Davis  November 12, 2019
Literature and Politics

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Ava Homa on What Statelessness, Trauma, and Political Exile Have Taught Her as a Writer

By Ava Homa  November 12, 2019
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne  November 12, 2019
Craft

Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for the Impatient Writer

By Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut  November 11, 2019
Masculinity

Imran Siddiquee on the Problem with “New Masculinity”

By Imran Siddiquee  November 11, 2019
Influences

Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

How a Writer is Shaped By Perpetual Exile

By Azar Nafisi  November 11, 2019
Inspiration

On the Line Between Plagiarism and Art

By Grant Maierhofer  November 11, 2019
Family Stories

Why Families Keep Secrets:
A Red Ink Conversation

By Literary Hub  November 11, 2019
LGBTQ History

How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
Women's Health

Tales of Medical Gaslighting: Chronic Pain, Sexism, and More

A Conversation Between Caren Beilin and Amy Berkowitz

By Caren Beilin  November 8, 2019
Nazis

Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
New Books Network

Julie Justicz on the Difficulty of Finding a Home for Kids with Disabilities

By New Books Network  November 8, 2019
The Hub

What would an AI text generator do with the first lines of literature’s greatest novels?

By Jonny Diamond  November 12, 2019
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