• Craft and Criticism

    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 30 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of . . . The Dictionary

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Book Tour in the Early Days
    of Coronavirus

    By Gabriel Bump  April 23, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Writing as Code-Switching for the Socially Anxious

    By Mai Tran  April 23, 2020
    Poets in Conversation

    Ilya Kaminsky: ‘Fables Allow You to Break Bread With the Dead’

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2020
    Shakespeare

    5 Shakespeare Scholars on the Past, Present, and Future of Theater Amid COVID-19

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2020
    Film and TV

    Watching Normal People Have Very Good Sex (on the
    Small Screen)

    By Emily Temple  April 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    An Yu: Stuck in New York Because of Coronavirus, Thinking of Beijing

    By An Yu  April 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

    By Lawrence Joseph  April 22, 2020
    Modernism

    Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

    By Veronica Esposito  April 21, 2020
    Conversations

    Nino Haratischvili’s Saga of Georgian Life in the
    Soviet Union

    By Lori Feathers  April 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How Did Writers Survive the
    First Great Depression?

    By Jason Boog  April 20, 2020
    Criticism

    William Styron’s Misguided Meditation on History

    By Christopher Tomlins  April 20, 2020
    Criticism

    What Are the Boundaries of a Memoir?

    By Beth Kephart  April 17, 2020
    Conversations

    Jessi Jezewska Stevens Goes to Some Galleries and Looks at Art

    By Michael Barron  April 17, 2020
    On Craft

    Brief Variations on the Writer’s Life

    By Roger Rosenblatt  April 17, 2020
    Workshop

    We Owe More to Our Young Writers: On the Relevance of the Workshop

    By Ru Freeman  April 16, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden on Craft, Candles, and Character

    By Literary Hub  April 16, 2020
    Translation

    Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

    By Richard Pevear  April 14, 2020
    On Poetry

    The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman’s Poetry

    By Mark Doty  April 14, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  April 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

    By Siri Hustvedt  April 13, 2020
    Criticism

    Like Talking With a Friend: Intimacy in Lucia Berlin’s Peripatetic Narratives

    By Alexandra Chang  April 13, 2020
    Nobel Laureates

    J.M.G. Le Clézio Talks the Common Good (and Other People’s Books)

    By Aysegul Sert  April 13, 2020
    Capitalism

    Jenny Odell and Wendy Liu on Liberating Ourselves From Usefulness

    By Jenny Odell  April 13, 2020
    On Poetry

    Kay Ryan on the Preposterous Beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    By Kay Ryan  April 13, 2020
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