• Craft and Criticism

    Family History

    Of Mobs and Namesakes: Writing the Story of My Infamous Grandfather

    By Russell Shorto  February 5, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

    By Laura Cronk  February 5, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Romance and Imagination by Alexander Pushkin, Read by Stefan Rudnicki

    By Behind the Mic   February 5, 2021
    Political Art

    What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

    By Tobias Carroll  February 4, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Complexities of Motherhood: A Reading List

    By Avni Doshi  February 4, 2021
    Women Writers

    Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

    By Lauren Marino  February 4, 2021
    Narrative

    How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

    By K Chess  February 4, 2021
    WMFA

    Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

    By WMFA   February 3, 2021
    Palestine

    The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA

    By Philip Metres  February 3, 2021
    Critics

    Lauren Oyler: Twitter has gotten so crazy… What if my book isn’t crazy enough?

    By Kyle Chayka  February 3, 2021
    Buddhism

    How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

    By An Tran  February 3, 2021
    Motherhood

    Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

    By Sarah Langan  February 3, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 3, 2021
    Post-Apocalyptic Lit

    Reading My Way Through a Pandemic with Post-Apocalyptic Literature

    By Maria E. Andreu  February 3, 2021
    Thresholds

    Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

    By Thresholds   February 3, 2021
    Religion

    How Istanbul’s Literature House Bridges a Divide in Contemporary Turkey

    By Jan-Peter Westad  February 3, 2021
    Otherppl

    Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 3, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Books That Center Black Joy

    By Reading Women  February 3, 2021
    Lit Century

    What Can an Intellectual Do? On Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner

    By Lit Century   February 2, 2021
    Writing Advice

    For Writers Graduating from an MFA During a Pandemic: Read Everything

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 2, 2021
    Philosophy

    What Richard Wollheim Taught Us About the ‘Finished State’ of a Person

    By Sheila Heti  February 2, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Chang-rae Lee: Bourbon Doesn’t Work For Writer’s Block

    By Literary Hub  February 2, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Discusses Shruti Swamy’s “The Neighbors”

    By Literary Disco  February 2, 2021
    Writing Women

    Who Are the Mean Girls
    in Literature?

    By Ellie Eaton  February 1, 2021
    Disasters

    Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

    By Susan Meissner  February 1, 2021
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