• Craft and Criticism

    Psychology

    How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

    By Moshe Bar  February 9, 2022
    Thresholds

    Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

    By Thresholds   February 9, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2022
    Underreported

    Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 9, 2022
    Climate Change

    Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    By Martin Puchner  February 9, 2022
    Blues

    On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  February 9, 2022
    Good Sex

    Some Fundamental Principles for Writing Great Sex

    By Bee Sacks  February 8, 2022
    Close Reading

    Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of Voyage in the Dark

    By Imogen Crimp  February 8, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    “Every Time You Eat a Bagel It’s a Fuckin’ Crime.” Liv Stratman on Writing About Diet Culture

    By I'm a Writer But   February 8, 2022
    Classic Reviews

    The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul:
    On Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

    By Book Marks  February 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 8, 2022
    new books tuesday

    20 new books hitting shelves this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 8, 2022
    Short Stories

    Weird Short Story Writers for Strange Times

    By Jason Ockert  February 7, 2022
    What to Watch

    From Little Miss Sunshine to Nanny: How Genre is Transforming Our Idea of the “Sundance Film”

    By Reuben Baron  February 7, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary

    By Book Marks  February 7, 2022
    Japanese Literature

    Lauren Groff on Yūko Tsushima’s Quietly Defiant Sensualities

    By Lauren Groff  February 7, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Liu Xinwu and the “Scar Literature” of China

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2022
    Big Table

    Warren Ellis on Mementos of the Music World

    By Big Table  February 7, 2022
    Underreported

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Censorship and Translated Literature in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Christopher Leonard on How Quantitative Easing is Imperiling the US Economy

    By Keen On  February 7, 2022
    First Draft

    “Secrets Really Power a Book.” A Conversation with Steven Schwartz

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 7, 2022
    Film

    Is Wonder Boys the Best-Ever Onscreen Depiction of a Writer?

    By Ryan Chapman  February 4, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Joshua Bennett Discuss A.R. Ammons’s poem “Cascadilla Falls”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 4, 2022
    Physics

    On Taking Writing Lessons from Quantum Physics

    By Hisham Bustani  February 4, 2022
    Letters

    The Lion Speaks: On the Potency of the Epistolary Form

    By Daniel Black  February 4, 2022
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