• Craft and Criticism

    First Draft

    Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2025
    Write-minded

    Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

    By Write-minded   February 10, 2025
    Literary Journals

    The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 7, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Reading All of Patrick O’Brian

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 7, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 7, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

    By Sophia Terazawa  February 7, 2025
    Remembrances

    “This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

    By Paul Morton  February 7, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 6, 2025
    On Poetry

    Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

    By Pádraig Ó' Tuama  February 6, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 6, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 6, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 6, 2025
    Harlem Renaissance

    Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

    By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
    Love

    Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

    By Jessica Soffer  February 5, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

    By Rahul Bery  February 5, 2025
    Shakespeare

    The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare

    By Grace Tiffany  February 4, 2025
    Relationships

    Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

    By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith  February 4, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks

    By Allegra Goodman  February 4, 2025
    Bibliophobia

    Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

    By Sarah Chihaya  February 4, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Josephine Baker! Lidia Yuknavitch! Geraldine Brooks! Ali Smith! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 4, 2025
    Awakeners

    Firefeet on 10 Years as a Writing Group

    By Awakeners   February 4, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Skeld Season, Spider Brides, and Black Orbs: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  February 3, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Orphans, Institutions, and Adventures Out West: Five Books Featuring Unconventional Families

    By Tom Lamont  February 3, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Small Joys for Winter: 10 Great New Children’s Books to Read in February

    By Caroline Carlson  February 3, 2025
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