• Literary Criticism

    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Profiles

    The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott’s Invented World

    By Danielle Evans  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    Poets

    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

    By Natalie Adler  September 11, 2019
    Writers in Conversation

    Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

    By Lori Feathers  September 9, 2019
    Deep Reads

    The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

    By Andrew Ervin  September 9, 2019
    Self-Publishing

    Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Too

    By Nick Ripatrazone  September 9, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn’t Always Love Me Back

    By Rosamond S. King  September 9, 2019
    Criticism

    On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

    By Slavoj Žižek  September 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

    By Ishmael Reed  September 6, 2019
    Criticism

    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

    By Kim Adrian  September 6, 2019
    Tennis

    A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

    By Benjamin Markovits  September 6, 2019
    Reading Lists

    14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

    By Hay Festival  September 6, 2019
    Criticism

    Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

    By Olga Zilberbourg  September 6, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

    By Charles Johnson  September 5, 2019
    Literary History

    The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

    By Anna Sherman  September 4, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

    By Meredith Talusan  September 4, 2019
    Bad Reviews

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Goodnight Moon

    By Emily Temple  September 3, 2019
    Feminism

    Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl?

    By Janet Fitch  September 3, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  August 30, 2019
    Criticism

    Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

    By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
    Poetry

    The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

    By Laura Buccieri  August 30, 2019
    The West

    John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

    By John Williams  August 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

    By Terrence Holt  August 29, 2019
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