• Craft and Criticism

    African Diaspora

    Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

    By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
    Mothers and Daughters

    Poetry and Painting: Visualizing Verse on the Page and the Canvas

    By Cynthia Zarin  September 6, 2024
    On Poetry

    An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

    By Lory Bedikian  September 6, 2024
    In Conversation

    American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

    By Sarah Viren  September 5, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 5, 2024
    On Teaching

    Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

    By Michele Herman  September 5, 2024
    Writing Place

    Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

    By Shannon Bowring  September 5, 2024
    Plot

    “A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

    By Maureen Sun  September 5, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 5, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 5, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 4, 2024
    Mindfulness

    Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

    By Megan Pinto  September 4, 2024
    literary criticism

    Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

    By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay  September 4, 2024
    Language

    How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

    By Iheoma Nwachukwu  September 4, 2024
    On Translation

    How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

    By Josephine Quinn  September 4, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell’s Joe Gould’s Secret

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 4, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  September 3, 2024
    Children's Literature

    A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

    By Caroline Carlson  September 3, 2024
    Reissues

    Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

    By Charles Yu  September 3, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

    By Rachel Kushner  September 3, 2024
    The Art of Editing

    Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

    By Amy Reading  September 3, 2024
    Poetry

    Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  September 3, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    90s Book Club: Sleeping with the Enemy with Chelsea Bieker

    By I'm a Writer But   September 3, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 3, 2024
    First Draft

    Kaliane Bradley on the Slow-Moving Crisis of Identity

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 3, 2024
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