• Craft and Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 29, 2025
    Anniversary

    Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 29, 2025
    On Poetry

    Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

    By Rosie Stockton  May 29, 2025
    Legacies

    Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Grandson

    By Simon Tolkien  May 29, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 29, 2025
    Unlikable Women

    The Likability Trap: Why We Need More “Nasty” Female Protagonists

    By Laura Leffler  May 29, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

    By Darrow Farr  May 29, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 29, 2025
    The Hub

    Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2025
    Wine

    Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

    By Rochelle Dowden-Lord  May 28, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    Storms

    Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms

    By Catherine Bush  May 28, 2025
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 27, 2025
    Anniversaries

    20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 27, 2025
    Characters

    Crafting from of a Creator’s Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

    By Nicola Dinan  May 27, 2025
    In Conversation

    Honor Jones on Exploring the Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 27, 2025
    In Conversation

    Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

    By Literary Hub  May 27, 2025
    Write-minded

    Vauhini Vara on Where Self Meets Technology

    By Memoir Nation   May 26, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Summer Reading and Writing Buddies

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 23, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

    By Arvind Ethan David  May 23, 2025
    Narrative

    What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

    By T.J. Martinson  May 23, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

    By Elizabeth Costello  May 23, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

    By Richard Russo  May 23, 2025
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