Craft and Criticism

Love

On Falling in Love with Your Characters

Sarah Gerard on Writing, Love, and Forgiveness

 
By Sarah Gerard  July 14, 2020
Reading

Reading Every Unread Book on My Bookshelf During the Pandemic

By Angelica Baker  July 13, 2020
Poetry

Franz Wright on the Love and Failures of Language

By One Pause Poetry  July 13, 2020
Genre

On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest
Possible Stories

By Estelle Laure  July 13, 2020
Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

By Teddy Wayne  July 10, 2020
Climate Crisis

Lessons From the Desert: Rediscovering the Endlessness of Time

By Ben Ehrenreich  July 9, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Community

Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We’re Alone?

By Corina Stan  July 9, 2020
Trauma

Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

By Veronica Esposito  July 9, 2020
Art and Politics

‘Have You Considered Socialism?’ Or, The Politics of Fictional Characters

By Andrew Martin  July 8, 2020
Criticism

Joshua Bennett on the Use of Animals in the Work of Black Writers

Of Subjugation and Ownership

By Joshua Bennett  July 13, 2020
Close Reading

On Saul Bellow’s Celebration of the Messy and Manic

By Brian Castleberry  July 7, 2020
On Identity

Writing My Own “Indian-American Novel” Meant Looking to California

By Sameer Pandya  July 7, 2020
The Writing Life

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

By Brian Gresko  July 6, 2020
Lit Crit

On Louise Erdrich, and Salvaging Wisdom From Absurdity and Injustice

James Lenfestey on an Icon of the Native American
Literary Renaissance

By James P. Lenfestey  July 6, 2020
Poets

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

By Erica McAlpine  July 6, 2020
Criticism

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter’s Writing Means to Her

By Claire G. Coleman  July 6, 2020
Writing Advice

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Writing Advice

By Emily Temple  July 2, 2020
On Racism

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called ‘Healing’

Shayla Lawson: It Is Not Your Job to Fix White People

By Shayla Lawson  July 1, 2020
Mathematics

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

By Susan D’Agostino  July 1, 2020
Speculative fiction

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

By Sophie MacKintosh  June 30, 2020
Film

Filmmaker Sara Fattahi on Bringing a Woman’s
Perspective of War

By Pamela Cohn  June 29, 2020
Happy Pride

Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay

Happy Pride, Everyone

By Rabih Alameddine  June 26, 2020
Photography

How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing
a Novel

By Anna Cox  June 26, 2020
Literary History

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

By John McIntyre  June 26, 2020
Memoir

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

By Lacy Crawford  July 8, 2020
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