• Literary Criticism

    American Empire

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

    “An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

     
    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2025
    On The Self

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 10, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 10, 2025
    Motherhood

    Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

    By Uttama Kirit Patel  April 10, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 10, 2025
    Fascism

    Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

    By Meredith Hambrock  April 9, 2025
    The Classics

    On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  April 9, 2025
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

    By Tiana Clark  April 11, 2025
    AI

    Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

    By Sarah Viren  April 9, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Buffy! Viet Thanh Nguyen! Andrea Long Chu! 23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 8, 2025
    Short Stories

    Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

    By Sally Rooney  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

    The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2025
    Motherhood

    A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

    By L. Sasha Gora  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  April 8, 2025
    Inspiration

    “The White Whales of the Sky.” On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions Past and Present

    Kate Folk Explains Her Aviation-Themed Homage to Herman Melville’s Timeless Novel

    By Kate Folk  April 8, 2025
    In Conversation

    Kate Folk on Writing a Contemporary Tribute to an American Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 8, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Zakiya Dalilah Harris on Satire and Sensitivity

    By The Critic and Her Publics   April 8, 2025
    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 2025
    Anniversaries

    On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100

    Eleanor Lanahan Reflects on the Literary Legacy of a Timeless American Novel

    By Eleanor Lanahan  April 7, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Villains, Vampires, Spies: The Best Remixes of The Great Gatsby

    By Camille Aubray  April 7, 2025
    Imagination

    Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

    By Lynn Steger Strong  April 7, 2025
    Friendships

    On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

    By Priya Vulchi  April 9, 2025
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