• Craft and Criticism

    Writing Advice

    “The Greatest Menace to the Writer is the Reader” and Other Advice from Shirley Jackson

    By Emily Temple  August 8, 2019
    Writing Real People

    The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

    By Brock Clarke  August 8, 2019
    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Expatriates

    We’ll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

    By Elliott Holt  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
    Advice

    “You Don’t Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

    By Emily Temple  August 6, 2019
    Conversations

    Toni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos

    By Literary Hub  August 6, 2019
    Reading Lists

    What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

    By Kate McQuade  August 6, 2019
    Fragmentary Essays

    One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  August 6, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Toward a Theory of the New Weird

    By Elvia Wilk  August 5, 2019
    Faith

    On the Pitfalls and Power of
    the Religious Essay

    By Sonja Livingston  August 5, 2019
    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

    By Aaron Robertson  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
    Moby Dick

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

    By Rachel Seiffert  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Encyclopedic Genius of
    Melville’s Masterpiece

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 1, 2019
    Comedy

    On the Difficulty of Translating British Humor Into American Comedy 

    By Alessandro Tersigni  August 1, 2019
    Comedy

    When Novelists Become Method Actors

    By Leland Cheuk  July 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  July 31, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Poetry

    Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

    By Anna Hundert  July 31, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    A.E. Stallings: ‘I’m Optimistic About Poetry, but That’s Maybe the Only Thing’

    By Peter Mishler  July 30, 2019
    Writing Strategies

    On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

    By Liz Astrof  July 30, 2019
    Poets

    Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
    of Heart and Humor

    By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
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