Literary Hub » Craft and Criticism

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's <em>Dune</em>

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's Dune

"Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."

By Ryan Britt | September 27, 2023

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

A Short History of the First Folio

By Gregory Doran | September 27, 2023

Pedro Páramo">

Pedro Páramo">

Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

Steve Stern on the Haphazard Affair of Writing a Book

By Steve Stern | September 27, 2023

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

The Author of Circe Talks to the Translator of The Iliad

By Emily Wilson | September 26, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

By Nora Fussner | September 26, 2023

Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

By Jane Ciabattari | September 26, 2023

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's <em>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</em>

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | September 26, 2023

Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | September 26, 2023

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's <em>Hunger</em>

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger

"It is a wise book, for the way it is full of the sorts of mistakes people make and cannot take back."

By Alexander Chee | September 25, 2023

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

The Author of The Armor of Light Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 25, 2023

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

"What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

By Jen Silverman | September 25, 2023

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 25, 2023

« First ‹ Previous 190 191 192 193194195 196 197 198 Next ›Last »

Page 194 of 821