Literary Hub » Craft and Criticism

Why We Can’t Escape Social Class, Gender, or Culture When We Dream

The Crisis of American Democracy Begins at the Local Level

If Our Superpower Is Human Empathy, Then Why Are We Teaching Computers To Be Empathetic?

Why All We Need to Become Whistleblowers in the Pursuit of Justice

Was Helen Gurley Brown the Jane Austen of Her Era?

Writers Love the World’s Oldest (and Most Obvious) Metaphor

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in The Legend of Zelda

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

Morgan Talty on Capturing the Uniqueness of Tribal Settings and Finding the Logic of a Story

On the Life of Czech Sci-Fi Author Karel Čapek, the Man Who Coined the Term “Robot”

To Fix the Climate We Need to Rewire the Economy, Our Democracy, and Our Brains

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

Can American Democracy Be Fixed By Making Political Speech More Expensive?

What Does the Harvey Weinstein Story Tell Us About the Culture of Silence in Hollywood and America?

On Washington Irving, John Muir, Philip Dick, Jonathan Haidt and What America Has Going For It

Page 281 of 656