How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

Barbara Bourland on Value and Excess in the Art Market

By Barbara Bourland | July 2, 2019

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

An Exhibit of His Life and Works is on Display through September

By Ted Widmer | July 2, 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 June

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

Domenico Starnone on the 20th Anniversary of Interpreter of Maladies

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Liza Wieland on Finding Darkness Where So Many Find Light

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

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Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

On <em>Myra Breckinridge</em> and the Life of Gore Vidal

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

Camille Paglia Unpacks the Mores of a Different Era

By Camille Paglia | June 27, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

Sadiqa de Meijer on How Landscapes Change as Our Language Does

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

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