• Craft and Criticism

    In Memoriam

    Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn’t Always Love Me Back

    By Rosamond S. King  September 9, 2019
    Criticism

    On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

    By Slavoj Žižek  September 9, 2019
    Writing Life

    Monique Truong Has Always Admired Jo from Little Women

    By But That's Another Story  September 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

    By Ishmael Reed  September 6, 2019
    Criticism

    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

    By Kim Adrian  September 6, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

    By Lynn Steger Strong  September 6, 2019
    Tennis

    A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

    By Benjamin Markovits  September 6, 2019
    Reading Lists

    14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

    By Hay Festival  September 6, 2019
    Criticism

    Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

    By Olga Zilberbourg  September 6, 2019
    Reading

    Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

    By Leah Price  September 5, 2019
    Self-Reflection

    On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

    By Elizabeth Ames  September 5, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Walter Mosley on Discovering Who Your Book’s Characters Really Are

    By Walter Mosley  September 5, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

    By Charles Johnson  September 5, 2019
    Literary History

    The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

    By Anna Sherman  September 4, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

    By Meredith Talusan  September 4, 2019
    Bad Reviews

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Goodnight Moon

    By Emily Temple  September 3, 2019
    Feminism

    Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl?

    By Janet Fitch  September 3, 2019
    Grammar

    Good Sentences Are Why
    We Read

    By Joe Moran  August 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Designing Your Grandfather’s Book (When He’s James Thurber)

    By Sara T. Sauers  August 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  August 30, 2019
    Criticism

    Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

    By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
    Poetry

    The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

    By Laura Buccieri  August 30, 2019
    Punctuation

    The Virtues of the Semicolon; or, Rebellious Punctuation

    By Cecelia Watson  August 29, 2019
    The West

    John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

    By John Williams  August 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

    By Terrence Holt  August 29, 2019
    Page 345 of 464

    • Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter

    For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bag. Most importantly, you’ll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving on the internet.

    Become a member for as low as $5/month

    Dismiss without supporting Lit Hub
    x