• Craft and Criticism

    On Poetry

    Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

    By Diana Khoi Nguyen  September 19, 2024
    Literary Theory

    Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

    By Ron Rosenbaum  September 19, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

    By History of Literature  September 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 19, 2024
    Class

    Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

    By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart  September 18, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

    By Lisa Yaszek  September 18, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  September 18, 2024
    Reading Lists

    The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rumaan Alam on Creating a Fictional World of the One Percent

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 17, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    For Tony Tulathimutte Book Piles Are “Metaphysical Constructs”

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Rumaan Alam! Gay Shakespeare! How Elon Musk killed Twitter! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 17, 2024
    Small Presses

    Community and Connection: On the Unexpected Benefits of Publishing Through a Small Press

    By Rilla Askew  September 17, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

    By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
    Write-minded

    Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner on Rejection

    By Write-minded   September 16, 2024
    First Draft

    Lorrie Moore on the Importance of Re-Reading

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 16, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 13, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    In Defense of Books Lists (but Not Literary Assholes): Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 13, 2024
    Characters

    Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

    By Anna Johnston  September 13, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

    By Brian Evenson  September 13, 2024
    Immigrant Stories

    Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

    By Daisy Hernández  September 13, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters 

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 12, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 12, 2024
    Storytelling

    On the Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical Storytelling

    By Ayelet Tsabari  September 12, 2024
    Myanmar

    Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

    By Elizabeth Shick  September 12, 2024
    Memory

    On Memory’s Ghosts and the Search for the Perfect Writing Space

    By Karen Salyer McElmurray  September 12, 2024
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