• Craft and Criticism

    On Poetry

    A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

    By Haleh Liza Gafori  April 22, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Put Your Butt in the Chair: Inside the Simple Alchemy of Making Art

    By Elisha Cooper  April 21, 2025
    Cancer

    Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

    By Ariel Gore  April 21, 2025
    Coming of Age

    “Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime

    By Kyle Edwards  April 21, 2025
    Best Short Stories 2025

    Announcing the Winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  April 21, 2025
    On Translation

    Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

    By Sibila Petlevski  April 21, 2025
    First Draft

    Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda on the Act of Translating

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 21, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jorah LaFleur on How to Read in Public

    By Memoir Nation   April 21, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lisa Willis of Cave Canem on Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   April 18, 2025
    On Poetry

    On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust, 50 Years Later

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 18, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Matthew Bucknor on The White Lotus and the Literary Power of the Accusatory Moment

    By Matthew Bucknor  April 18, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 18, 2025
    Coming of Age

    Five Novels About Coming of Age When You’re Old Enough to Know Better

    By Emily Everett  April 18, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Aurelia Scott and Jo Reed on A Study in Scarlet Women

    By Behind the Mic   April 18, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Writers Are Assholes?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 17, 2025
    Nationalism

    “Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature

    By Brooke Clark  April 17, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 17, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Players Upon the Page: How Directing Plays Taught Nicole Galland to Write Novels

    By Nicole Galland  April 17, 2025
    Writing Place

    Not One Vietnam, But Many: Vinh Nguyen on Capturing a Multifarious Country in Memoir

    By Vinh Nguyen  April 17, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ariana Reines Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 17, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Vauhini Vara on Searches and Searches

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 17, 2025
    Detective Fiction

    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    By Sarah Weinman  April 16, 2025
    Nature Poetics

    Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems

    By Ishion Hutchinson  April 16, 2025
    On Translation

    The Future Will be Translated:
    A Manifesto in Three Lies

    By Chloe Garcia Roberts  April 16, 2025
    The Cosmic Library

    The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play

    By The Cosmic Library   April 16, 2025
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