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

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

Janet Fitch on Finding a Real Coming-of-Age Tale

By Janet Fitch | September 3, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in August

By Emily Firetog | August 30, 2019

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

Tom Lutz on Where the Love of Books Can Lead

By Tom Lutz | August 30, 2019

The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

On Reading 31 Books in 31 Days

By Laura Buccieri | August 30, 2019

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

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

The Author of Stoner With Some Strong Opinions for The Nation

By John Williams | August 29, 2019

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

Terrence Holt Revisits Paul Starr's Classic, The Social Transformation of American Medicine

By Terrence Holt | August 29, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Fall and Rise of William Stoner

By Steve Almond | August 29, 2019

My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

By Marcos Gonsalez | August 29, 2019

On the Politics of Italics

By Jumoke Verissimo | August 28, 2019

How to Review a Novel

How to Review a Novel

London Review of Books Editor Mary-Kay Wilmers
on the Language of Criticism

By Mary-Kay Wilmers | August 27, 2019

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

Introducing a New Column by Nick Ripatrazone

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 27, 2019

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

“I wouldn’t have one of the motherfuckers in my house for anything.”

By Chuck Augello | August 26, 2019

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Kelsey Ronan on Finding the Right Words

By Kelsey Ronan | August 26, 2019

Jenny Zhang on Reading <em>Little Women</em> and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

By Jenny Zhang | August 23, 2019

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

"A Thurber must be seen to be believed—there is no use trying to tell the plot of it."

By Dorothy Parker | August 22, 2019

Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Luke Harding Revisits the Cautious Optimism of Lenin's Tomb

By Luke Harding | August 22, 2019

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