• Craft and Criticism

    Dystopias

    Life in a Freewheeling, Buoyant Dystopia (With Baseball at Its Center)

    By Mimi Lok  February 5, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
    Tell the Truth

    By Literary Hub  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    Literary History

    Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
    To Write?

    By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

    By Dan Bevacqua  February 4, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    MFA Life

    Ten MFA Archetypes To Avoid (Becoming)

    By Caroline Zancan  February 3, 2020
    News and Culture

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    In Conversation

    Scarlett Thomas on the Tricky Work of Writing the Unsayable

    By Lori Feathers  February 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

    By Melissa Mesku  February 3, 2020
    Memoir

    How to Write Autofiction About Your Family Without Losing Your Mind

    By Eleanor Anstruther  February 3, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Literary Community

    How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

    By Mark Gustafson  January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    Teaching

    The Chaotic Side of Learning: Keeping High School Seniors From Falling Asleep

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 30, 2020
    The Hub

    What is the point of this terrible book review?

    By Dan Sheehan  January 29, 2020
    Open Letters

    Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

    By 141 Writers  January 29, 2020
    Self-Help?

    When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

    By Beth Blum  January 29, 2020
    Children's Lit

    On One of the Greatest Children’s Ghost Books Ever Published

    By Jessica Mesman Griffith  January 29, 2020
    Reading Across America

    A Reading Series for People to Share Their Grief

    By Laura Winnick  January 29, 2020
    Writer's Diaries

    It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

    By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Belletrist Studio Sessions:
    Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

    By Literary Hub  January 28, 2020
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