You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

Aaron Angello on the Stillness of the Imaginative Mind

By Aaron Angello | May 18, 2022

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 18, 2022

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

19 new books to savor this week.

19 new books to savor this week.

By Katie Yee | May 17, 2022

How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction

How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction

Phil Klay on Maintaining Verisimilitude When Writing About War

By Phil Klay | May 17, 2022

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

Nicole Miller on the Writer's Attention to the Boundary Between Being and Non-Being

By Nicole Miller | May 17, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch

By Emma Straub | May 17, 2022

Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

By Victoria Shorr | May 17, 2022

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

By Jane Ciabattari | May 17, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2022

How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense

How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense

Jon Mooallem in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 17, 2022

Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists

Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists

Charlotte Mullins in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 17, 2022

Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women's Dead End Work

Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women's Dead End Work

In Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 17, 2022

An Ode to Memory and Place: Readings by Brian Alan Ellis, Grant Faulkner, and Erin Calabria

An Ode to Memory and Place: Readings by Brian Alan Ellis, Grant Faulkner, and Erin Calabria

From Micro, a Podcast for Short But Powerful Writing

By Micro Podcast | May 17, 2022

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

Steven Toussaint Considers the Melding of Ambivalence and Political Commitment

By Steven Toussaint | May 16, 2022

Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist

Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 16, 2022

Page 297 of 648

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member