• Literary Criticism

    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    Literary History

    Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
    To Write?

    By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    News and Culture

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

    By Melissa Mesku  February 3, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Literary Community

    How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

    By Mark Gustafson  January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    Open Letters

    Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

    By 141 Writers  January 29, 2020
    Self-Help?

    When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

    By Beth Blum  January 29, 2020
    Children's Lit

    On One of the Greatest Children’s Ghost Books Ever Published

    By Jessica Mesman Griffith  January 29, 2020
    The Robots

    The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

    By Dennis Tang  January 27, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    Immigration

    Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

    By Javier Zamora  January 24, 2020
    On Death

    What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

    By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
    Criticism

    Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

    By Phillipa K. Chong  January 23, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Climate Change

    Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

    By Jennifer Mills  January 22, 2020
    The History of Reading

    Rediscovering the Lost Power
    of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
    Language

    Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
    in Yiddish

    By Isaac Bashevis Singer  January 22, 2020
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