• Craft and Criticism

    News and Culture

    Abbie Greaves on the Merits
    of Silence

    By Abbie Greaves  March 25, 2020
    On Craft

    Fragmented Narratives Are Broken, Independent, and Honest

    By Sinéad Gleeson  March 24, 2020
    Feminism

    Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

    By Soraya Chemaly  March 24, 2020
    Poetry

    A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

    By Mark Nowak  March 20, 2020
    But That's Another Story

    Rufi Thorpe on Anne of Green Gables and Motherhood

    By But That's Another Story  March 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Italy’s Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

    By Alessio Perrone  March 19, 2020
    Plagiarism

    In the Academy, Plagiarism is the Sin Above All Sins. That’s a Problem.

    By Nicholas Delbanco  March 19, 2020
    Conversations

    Honor Moore Finally Feels Like Her Mother’s Daughter

    By Mackenzie Singh  March 19, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Can We Talk About How Austen’s Characters Tend to Blur Together?

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 18, 2020
    The American Midwest

    Flyover and Proud: TaraShea Nesbit Reckons With Home

    By TaraShea Nesbit  March 18, 2020
    Literary History

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
    On Craft

    Sure, Plot is Good, But Have You Tried Talking About
    Story Shape?

    By Joseph Scapellato  March 17, 2020
    Puzzles

    Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

    By Adrienne Raphel  March 17, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

    By Ysabelle Cheung  March 16, 2020
    Romance

    The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

    By Helen Taylor  March 16, 2020
    Haunted Houses

    For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

    By Jane Healey  March 16, 2020
    Journalism

    Gerald Posner: 6 Lessons From Decades of Investigative Reporting

    By Gerald Posner  March 16, 2020
    Book Clubs

    Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

    By Marjan Kamali  March 13, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
    Literary History

    Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

    By D.J. Taylor  March 13, 2020
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

    By Emily Temple  March 12, 2020
    Accessibility

    What the Literary World Gets Wrong About Accessibility

    By Amanda Leduc  March 12, 2020
    Solitude

    Cultivating Solitude,
    The Henry James’ Way

    By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
    Language

    Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

    By Luis Jaramillo  March 10, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Literary Hub  March 10, 2020
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