• Craft and Criticism

    Narrators

    Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

    By Sarah Lyn Rogers  February 18, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 18, 2025
    Awakeners

    T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

    By Awakeners   February 18, 2025
    Write-minded

    Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

    By Memoir Nation   February 18, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  February 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    “Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

    By Eric Olson  February 14, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 14, 2025
    Romance

    Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

    By Angelina Mazza  February 14, 2025
    Illustrations

    From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

    By Sam Mills  February 14, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

    By Roisín O'Donnell  February 14, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 13, 2025
    Italian Literature

    Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

    By Ann Goldstein  February 13, 2025
    Publishing

    Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

    By Maris Kreizman  February 13, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 13, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 13, 2025
    Gaza

    Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2025
    Literary History

    An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

    By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
    craft advice

    From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

    By Alejandro Heredia  February 12, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 12, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

    By The Critic and Her Publics   February 11, 2025
    In Conversation

    Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 11, 2025
    Sex

    How to Write a Good Sex Scene

    By Emily Temple  February 11, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
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