• Literary Criticism

    Fairy Tales

    What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We’re Different)

    By Marie Mutsuki Mockett  April 7, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

    By Nathaniel Popkin  April 6, 2020
    On Craft

    This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

    By Patrick Madden  April 1, 2020
    Exile

    Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

    By Breyten Breytenbach  April 1, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories in This Strange Long Month

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe

    By Aminatta Forna  March 26, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Reading This Side of Paradise at 100, During a Pandemic

    By Emily Temple  March 26, 2020
    Poetry

    A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

    By Mark Nowak  March 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Italy’s Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

    By Alessio Perrone  March 19, 2020
    Plagiarism

    In the Academy, Plagiarism is the Sin Above All Sins. That’s a Problem.

    By Nicholas Delbanco  March 19, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Can We Talk About How Austen’s Characters Tend to Blur Together?

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 18, 2020
    Literary History

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
    Puzzles

    Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

    By Adrienne Raphel  March 17, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

    By Ysabelle Cheung  March 16, 2020
    Romance

    The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

    By Helen Taylor  March 16, 2020
    Haunted Houses

    For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

    By Jane Healey  March 16, 2020
    Book Clubs

    Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

    By Marjan Kamali  March 13, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
    Literary History

    Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

    By D.J. Taylor  March 13, 2020
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

    By Emily Temple  March 12, 2020
    Solitude

    Cultivating Solitude,
    The Henry James’ Way

    By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
    Language

    Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

    By Luis Jaramillo  March 10, 2020
    Criticism

    On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

    By Michelle de Krester  March 9, 2020
    Palestine

    How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

    By George Abraham  March 6, 2020
    Criticism

    How Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Continues to Show Up in Literary Fiction

    By David Lerner Schwartz  March 5, 2020
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