• Craft and Criticism

    Sci-Fi

    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    "Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."

     
    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Genre

    The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  September 27, 2023
    On Writing

    The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

    By Steve Stern  September 27, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

    By Emily Wilson  September 26, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Writing the Novel

    How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

    By Nora Fussner  September 26, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 26, 2023
    Lit Century

    Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    By Lit Century   September 26, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    A Short History of the First Folio

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    Asian American Literature

    New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger

    By Alexander Chee  September 25, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

    By Literary Hub  September 25, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Utopias

    Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

    "What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

    By Jen Silverman  September 25, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott’s Fascinating Life

    By History of Literature  September 25, 2023
    Write-minded

    Tzivia Gover on Dreaming and Writing

    By Write-minded   September 25, 2023
    In Conversation

    Claudia Dey on Women’s Work, Acting as Writing, and the Complicated Allure of Patriarchs

    By Naomi Skwarna  September 22, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective

    "What do we reveal and what do we keep to ourselves, and for what reasons?"

    By Beth Nguyen   September 22, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 22, 2023
    Joy

    Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

    By Ross Gay  September 21, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 21, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

    By The Maris Review  September 21, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 21, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

    By Talk Easy  September 26, 2023
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