• Craft and Criticism

    On Poetry

    On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

    By Patricia M. Dwyer  May 7, 2019
    Appreciations

    Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

    By Gerður Kristný  May 7, 2019
    A Frenchman in America

    On the Beauty of Defeat and the Future of Europe

    By Aysegul Sert  May 7, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Binnie Kirshenbaum, Ryan Chapman, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  May 7, 2019
    Whiteness

    What Is an Australian National Literature and Who Creates It?

    By Nam Le  May 6, 2019
    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

    By Nina Subin  May 6, 2019
    Writing Prompts

    The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

    By Eve Makis  May 6, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

    By Tobias Carroll  May 3, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

    By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Annotations

    Finnegan’s Wake at 80:
    In Defense of the Difficult

    By Susie Lopez  May 3, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Poetry, Like Witchcraft and Magick, is an Act of Transformation

    By Janaka Stucky  May 3, 2019
    #MeToo Novels?

    Miriam Toews on What Forgiveness Means in the #MeToo Era

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 2, 2019
    Modern Classics

    Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker

    By Eileen Myles  May 2, 2019
    Influences

    Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, and Barbara Smith
    on Their Literary Influences

    By William Johnson  May 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Happy birthday, Joseph Heller! Here’s a gift: a classic review of Catch-22.

    By Katie Yee  May 1, 2019
    Terminal Wit

    Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

    By Mervyn Horder  May 1, 2019
    Editors

    The Comma Queen and
    the Internet’s Copy Chief on What Matters to a Copyeditor

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2019
    Identity

    Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My
    Parents Can’t Read

    By Kia Abdullah  May 1, 2019
    Geniuses

    On the Great Clarice Lispector

    By Benjamin Moser  April 30, 2019
    Flânerie

    On the Struggle to Become a True
    Parisian Flaneur

    By Aysegül Savas  April 30, 2019
    School Days

    On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

    By Michael Knight  April 30, 2019
    Bodice Ripping

    Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

    By Robert Morrison  April 30, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
    Writing About Religion?

    By Jonathan Bate  April 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite
    Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2019
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