How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

Charlotte Runcie on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Artists and Those Who Review Them

By Charlotte Runcie | July 10, 2025

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

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

Joanna Howard Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Passion For Film on Her Own Storytelling

By Joanna Howard | July 10, 2025

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

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

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

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

From the Introduction to a New Translation of the Heavenly Portion of "The Divine Comedy"

By Mary Jo Bang | July 9, 2025

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Margot Singer: “That book... was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.”

By Margot Singer | July 9, 2025

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

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

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

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Andrew Porter on What Unites His Work

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Prabal Gurang on Why No Outside Validation Is Needed

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Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

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Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

“I needed sounds that were lush, that could carry these characters’ emotional weight.”

By Clarence A. Haynes | July 3, 2025

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 3, 2025

Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

The Author of “Hazel Says No” Shares What She Learned from Decades of Doubt

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Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

Danielle Dutton In Conversation With the Author of “Audition”

By Danielle Dutton | July 2, 2025

Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje's <em>Gone Too Far!</em>

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In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

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Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

“I follow the object, asking it to speak to me.”

By Libby Buck | July 1, 2025

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