• Literary Criticism

    Love Stories

    Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine’s Day

    By Katie Yee  February 14, 2023
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to borrow from your local library.

    By Katie Yee  February 14, 2023
    The Internet

    On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

    By Stephen Marche  February 14, 2023
    Campus Novels

    In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

    By Daisy Alpert Florin  February 14, 2023
    Write-minded

    Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

    By Write-minded   February 14, 2023
    Hope

    How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

    By Paz Pardo  February 14, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 14, 2023
    Keen On

    All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

    By I'm a Writer But   February 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    BookTok

    BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

    By Leigh Stein  February 13, 2023
    Close Reading

    Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

    By Ann Beattie  February 13, 2023
    Surrealism

    Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five

    By Isabel Waidner  February 13, 2023
    Harlem Renaissance

    Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

    By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Kathryn Ma on Portraying Asian-Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 13, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s Twist is the Lack of a Twist

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 10, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 10, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Helen Sword on the Physicality of Language

    By Helen Sword  February 10, 2023
    Animals

    The Strangest Things Are the Truest: Laline Paull on Channeling a Dolphin’s Narrative Voice

    By Laline Paull  February 10, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What José Olivarez is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 10, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on Capturing What it Means to Live in Contemporary Nigeria

    By The Maris Review  February 9, 2023
    Literary Biography

    The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

    By Heather Clark  February 9, 2023
    Therapy

    On the Uncertain Border Between Writing and Therapy

    By Veronica Esposito  February 9, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 9, 2023
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