• Literary Criticism

    What to Watch

    Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

    By Sarah Priscus  March 23, 2023
    Criticism

    What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

    By Dasha Kiper  March 23, 2023
    Depression

    A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm

    By James Davis May  March 23, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 23, 2023
    Criticism

    The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

    By Christiane Blot-Labarrère  March 22, 2023
    Nature Poetics

    More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

    By Erin Sharkey  March 22, 2023
    Otherppl

    “The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 22, 2023
    In Conversation

    Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

    By Julia Kovalenko  March 22, 2023
    Cities

    Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

    By Cecile Pin  March 22, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Mark A. Radcliffe Reads from His New Novel Three Gifts

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  March 22, 2023
    Reading Lists

    20 new books to check out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 21, 2023
    Motherhood

    Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

    By Szilvia Molnar  March 21, 2023
    On Race

    The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

    By Rachel Jamison Webster  March 21, 2023
    Representation

    You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

    By Julia Langbein  March 21, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  March 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Why Female Novelists Should Plunder the Voices of Men in Their Work

    By Keen On  March 21, 2023
    On Translation

    Every Writer Should Learn How to Translate

    By Kristen Renee Miller  March 20, 2023
    First Draft

    “Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 20, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

    By History of Literature  March 20, 2023
    What to Watch

    Lucky Hank is an Exhausted Academic Satire

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 17, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kate DiCamillo on Seeing Her Book, The Magician’s Elephant, Adapted for Film

    By Kate DiCamillo  March 17, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 17, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  March 17, 2023
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