“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

The Author of Lazy City on Creative Intentionality and Subverting the Trauma Plot

By Lucie Elven | December 18, 2023

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Writing Without the Certainty of Return

By Sakiru Adebayo | December 18, 2023

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

From Anne Carson Going Viral to the End of the Manuscript Thief Saga

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2023

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 14, 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Books That Took Home This Year’s Biggest Literary Prizes

By Book Marks | December 14, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Mary Ruefle, Nicole Sealey, Joy Harjo, and More

By Diana Arterian | December 14, 2023

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Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

By Kelly Marie Coyne | December 14, 2023

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

By The Maris Review | December 14, 2023

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

By Rumena Bužarovska | December 13, 2023

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 13, 2023

The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 12, 2023

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s <em>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama</em>

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

The Must Read Book of the Current Moment

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus | December 12, 2023

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

“What no one said out loud was that it already did mean something—to other people’s bottom line.”

By Gabrielle Korn | December 12, 2023

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

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

Featuring Ramona Ausubel, Theodore Wheeler, Jade Song and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 12, 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2023

The 10 Best Book Reviews
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Parul Sehgal on James Ellroy, Merve Emre on Italo Calvino, Namwali Serpell on "hit me" Novels, and More

By Adam Morgan | December 11, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

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