• Literary Criticism

    Language

    On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

    By Jason Guriel  August 13, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Enduring Appeal of Fictional Sisters: A Reading List

    By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb  August 13, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

    By Jane Healey  August 12, 2021
    Science fiction

    In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

    By Daniel LoPilato  August 11, 2021
    Criticism

    On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

    By Kyle Beachy  August 11, 2021
    Illness

    Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

    By Eleanor Henderson  August 11, 2021
    On Writing

    Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

    By Angel Khoury  August 11, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

    By NewberyTart   August 11, 2021
    Close Reading

    Was Bridget Jones’s Diary the First Internet Novel?

    By Emily Temple  August 10, 2021
    Interview

    Sabina Murray on the Limits of Journalism and the Wondrous Possibilities of Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 10, 2021
    Horror

    Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

    By Virginia Feito  August 10, 2021
    Medicine

    The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

    By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 9, 2021
    Scandinavian Literature

    On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

    By Arthur Herman  August 9, 2021
    The Hub

    After Lord Byron: poetic advice for the modern poet (in couplets).

    By Jason Guriel  August 6, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

    By Sara Batkie  August 6, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

    By Allison Larkin  August 6, 2021
    Writer's Homes

    Getting to Know an Author Through Their Home

    By Amy Belding Brown  August 5, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and Sustaining—Creativity

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2021
    Marriage

    Inside the Mind—and Heart—of the Other Woman: On Thought-Provoking Infidelity Narratives

    By Katherine Ashenburg  August 5, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Katie Kitamura in Conversation with Raven Leilani

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 5, 2021
    On Translation

    The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel

    By Annie McDermott  August 5, 2021
    Poetry

    A close reading of a great American poem: Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.”

    By Jonny Diamond  August 4, 2021
    Artists in Conversation

    The Wyrd Ones: A Conversation Between Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn

    By Meg Thomann  August 4, 2021
    Family Stories

    The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

    By Tracey Lange  August 4, 2021
    new books tuesday

    21 new books coming out this week; or, 21 reasons to visit your local indie.

    By Katie Yee  August 3, 2021
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