• Craft and Criticism

    Interview with a Poet

    Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

    By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
    NBCC Awards

    30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

    By Literary Hub  March 14, 2023
    Family Stories

    What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

    By Elizabeth McKenzie  March 14, 2023
    Essay

    How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

    By Cathleen Schine  March 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  March 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   March 14, 2023
    Otherppl

    “I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 14, 2023
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to check out this week.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 14, 2023
    Language

    Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

    By Theo Downes-Le Guin  March 13, 2023
    Advice

    “Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

    By Mary Childs  March 13, 2023
    Book Festivals

    Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2023
    Writing

    Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  March 13, 2023
    Family Stories

    Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

    By Dani Shapiro  March 13, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction

    By Memoir Nation   March 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

    By History of Literature  March 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
    Philosophy

    The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

    By Regan Penaluna  March 13, 2023
    Plot

    The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

    By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, The Human Stain, and a Novelist’s Right to Tell Other People’s Stories

    By Keen On  March 13, 2023
    Video Games

    9 Must-Reads for Lovers (and Haters) of The Last of Us

    By Jonny Diamond  March 10, 2023
    Classic Novels

    In Honor of International Women’s Day: 8 Ways to Love Little Women

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  March 10, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Xiaolu Guo on Translating
    the Self

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 10, 2023
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  March 10, 2023
    Diaries

    The Hard Won Lessons of Lesley Arfin’s Dear Diary 15 Years Later

    By Mariella Rudi  March 10, 2023
    2023 Oscars

    Your Literary Guide to the 2023 Oscars

    By Eliza Smith  March 10, 2023
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