• Craft and Criticism

    On Writing

    How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

    By Ben Okri  March 9, 2022
    Recommended Reading

    How Campus Novels Reveal the Power—and Danger—of Pure Ideas

    By Tara Isabella Burton  March 9, 2022
    Keen On

    What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

    By Keen On  March 9, 2022
    Gender

    Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

    By Mona Chollet  March 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Putin’s Ukraine Invasion and George W. Bush’s Iraq Invasion Are Both Oil Wars

    By Keen On  March 9, 2022
    Thresholds

    Endnotes on Experimentation: Sheila Heti, Alexander Chee, and More Voices from Thresholds

    By Thresholds   March 9, 2022
    On Translation

    How Rumi Became a Poet

    By Haleh Liza Gafori  March 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Jennifer Sciubba on Why Demography Isn’t Destiny

    By Keen On  March 9, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Kevin Barry on Flowers in the Attic, 2666, and The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Book Marks  March 9, 2022
    The Hub

    It turns out Drake has very good taste in books.

    By Katie Yee  March 8, 2022
    Ukraine

    How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort

    By Kate Tsurkan  March 8, 2022
    Craft

    Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Amanda Pellegrino on Writing for TV Versus Writing a Novel

    By Amanda Pellegrino  March 8, 2022
    Rural America

    What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

    By Lee Cole  March 8, 2022
    Character Development

    Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

    By Erin Kate Ryan  March 8, 2022
    Women Writers

    Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

    By Mary Ann Sieghart  March 8, 2022
    Keen On

    Helen Thompson: Is Vladimir Putin Returning the World to the Hard Times of the 1970s?

    By Keen On  March 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  March 8, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    “Dare to Love Anyway, Even if We Are Also Deeply Fucked.” A Conversation with Sara Lippmann

    By I'm a Writer But   March 8, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 8, 2022
    new books tuesday

    19 new books to get lost in this week.

    By Katie Yee  March 8, 2022
    Storybound

    Debbie Millman Discusses Her Book Why Design Matters

    By Storybound   March 8, 2022
    Hollywood

    It’s an Honor Just to Be Asian: Sandra Oh on Systemic Racism in Hollywood

    By Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang   March 7, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

    By Amal El-Mohtar  March 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the Ukraine Isn’t Really About the Ukraine

    By Keen On  March 7, 2022
    Craft

    Don’t Overthink It: The Argument For Just Starting to Write

    By Matt Bell  March 7, 2022
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