• Craft and Criticism

    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    5 Questions

    Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer’s Block and Women With Swords

    By Felicia Day  October 1, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters

    By Alberto Manguel  October 1, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  September 30, 2019
    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
    Australian Literature

    On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

    By Madeleine Watts  September 30, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

    By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
    Writing Rules

    Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

    By Anthony Doerr  September 30, 2019
    Literary History

    The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

    By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
    Craft

    The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

    By Sonya Huber  September 27, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    News and Culture

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Young Adult

    How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
    Animals

    Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous With
    Our Grief?

    By Rebecca Renner  September 25, 2019
    Children's Lit

    Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids’ Book

    By Rivka Galchen  September 25, 2019
    Mental health

    Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

    By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen  September 25, 2019
    Poetry

    On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

    By Jake Skeets  September 24, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

    By Kate Angus  September 24, 2019
    New in Fiction

    Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

    By Ann Patchett  September 23, 2019
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