• Craft and Criticism

    Fantasy

    On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

     July 21, 2020
    Writer's block

    How I Cured My Writer’s Block With Techno

    By Stan Parish  July 21, 2020
    Short Stories

    Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

    By David Karashima  July 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Writing As an
    Act of Distancing

    By Guy Gunaratne  July 20, 2020
    Correspondence

    Lydia Davis on Making the Decision
    Not to Fly

    By Lydia Davis  July 20, 2020
    Politics

    How to Write a Timely Novel in a World That Won’t Stop Changing

    By David James Poissant  July 20, 2020
    Classics

    The Tenacious Constancy of
    The Merchant of Prato

    By Charles Nicholl  July 20, 2020
    Art and Politics

    When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

    By Tobias Carroll  July 17, 2020
    Philosophy

    Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics

    By Maren Tova Linett  July 17, 2020
    Storytelling

    On the Igbo Art of Storytelling

    By Ikechukwu Ogbu  July 17, 2020
    Autofiction

    On the Diaries of Helen Garner and the Quagmire of the Fictionalized Self

    By Madeleine Watts  July 16, 2020
    Native American Lit

    On Shapes of Native Nonfiction and the Story Form of
    Native Basketry

    By Literary Hub  July 16, 2020
    The Hub

    On Lydia Davis’s birthday, read her advice on language, writing from reality, and more.

    By Corinne Segal  July 15, 2020
    Love

    On Falling in Love with Your Characters

    By Sarah Gerard  July 14, 2020
    Criticism

    Joshua Bennett on the Use of Animals in the Work of Black Writers

    By Joshua Bennett  July 13, 2020
    Reading

    Reading Every Unread Book on My Bookshelf During the Pandemic

    By Angelica Baker  July 13, 2020
    Poetry

    Franz Wright on the Love and Failures of Language

    By One Pause Poetry  July 13, 2020
    Genre

    On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest
    Possible Stories

    By Estelle Laure  July 13, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  July 10, 2020
    Climate Crisis

    Lessons From the Desert: Rediscovering the Endlessness of Time

    By Ben Ehrenreich  July 9, 2020
    Community

    Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We’re Alone?

    By Corina Stan  July 9, 2020
    Trauma

    Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

    By Veronica Esposito  July 9, 2020
    Art and Politics

    ‘Have You Considered Socialism?’ Or, The Politics of Fictional Characters

    By Andrew Martin  July 8, 2020
    Memoir

    I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

    By Lacy Crawford  July 8, 2020
    Close Reading

    On Saul Bellow’s Celebration of the Messy and Manic

    By Brian Castleberry  July 7, 2020
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