• Craft and Advice

    Craft and Criticism

    On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

    Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

     
    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 18, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

    By Chloe Michelle Howarth  July 18, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

    By Issa Quincy  July 16, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones’s The Trouble of Color

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 16, 2025
    Relationships

    What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

    By Hattie Williams  July 14, 2025
    On Reading

    Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth…) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

    By Kathy Wang  July 14, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    First Draft

    Robert Macfarlane on Crossing the Terrain

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 14, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jeff Hiller on The Celebrity Memoir

    By Memoir Nation   July 14, 2025
    Writing Advice

    Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

    By Sam Weller  July 11, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025
    Craft

    Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 11, 2025
    African Literature

    War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors

    By Wanjeri Gakuru  July 11, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

    By Michael T. Luongo  July 11, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Three Earphones-Award Winners from AudioFile

    this week on AudioFile's BEHIND THE MIC

    By Behind the Mic   July 11, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

    By Kristen Arnett  July 10, 2025
    craft advice

    How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

    By Charlotte Runcie  July 10, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

    By Joanna Howard  July 10, 2025
    Language

    Cushty, Prat, Cowson… and Other British Terms I Can No Longer Say in America

    Christopher J. Yates on Language Nostalgia

    By Christopher J. Yates  July 9, 2025
    On Translation

    Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 9, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

    By Margot Singer  July 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  July 8, 2025
    craft advice

    Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

    “Even though I did my best to tune out Croatia, this proved to be an impossible task.”

    By Lidija Hilje  July 8, 2025
    First Draft

    Andrew Porter on What Unites His Work

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Prabal Gurang on Why No Outside Validation Is Needed

    By Memoir Nation   July 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

    By Irenosen Okojie  July 11, 2025
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