• Craft and Criticism

    End Times

    We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill’s World

    By Kristin Iversen  February 11, 2020
    Criticism

    Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

    By Vivian Gornick  February 11, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 11, 2020
    Editors

    What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

    By Adrienne Miller  February 11, 2020
    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    Cities

    How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

    By Sam Wasson  February 7, 2020
    Queer Lit

    Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

    By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
    5 Questions

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

    By Literary Hub  February 6, 2020
    Criticism

    When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

    By Sarah Kozloff  February 6, 2020
    Baseball

    Emily Nemens on Getting to the Heart of Recession-Era America in a Baseball Novel

    By Christian Kiefer  February 5, 2020
    Autofiction

    The Risk, and Reward, of Turning from Memoir to Fiction

    By Amy Jo Burns  February 5, 2020
    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
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