• Literary Criticism

    Adaptations

    On Malcolm Lowry’s Yearslong, Fruitless Attempt to Adapt Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night for Film

    By Michael Melgaard  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    What to Watch

    43 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

    By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
    On Race

    Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

    By Chinelo Okparanta  September 14, 2022
    Thresholds

    Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

    By Thresholds   September 14, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

    By Olivia Rutigliano  September 14, 2022
    Family Stories

    Families Far Worse Than Yours: A Reading List

    By Sally Koslow  September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Craft and Criticism

    Read William Faulkner’s 1952 Adulation of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    By Book Marks  September 13, 2022
    On Translation

    Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 13, 2022
    Books

    Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

    By Randall Munroe  September 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2022
    On Poetry

    Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

    By Matthew Zapruder  September 13, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 13, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

    By I'm a Writer But   September 13, 2022
    Experimental Fiction

    Deforming Medium: A Reading List of Experimental Points of View

    By Jonathan Dee  September 13, 2022
    new books tuesday

    24 glorious new books to welcome into the world today.

    By Katie Yee  September 13, 2022
    Craft

    “I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

    By Jim Harrison  September 12, 2022
    On Writing

    Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects

    By Dashiel Carrera  September 12, 2022
    Motherhood

    On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

    By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz  September 12, 2022
    Poetry

    Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

    By Annette Dauphin Simon  September 12, 2022
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