• Craft and Criticism

    Cultural Studies

    How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
    in the 18th Century

    By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    On Poetry

    The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

    By Julie Dobrow  December 11, 2019
    On Whiteness

    Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen

    By Marcos Gonsalez  December 11, 2019
    Nature Writing

    How to Write with Optimism About Nature
    (in a Time of Disaster)

    By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
    Philosophy

    Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 10, 2019
    Black Women's Writing

    What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

    By Gabrielle Hickmon  December 10, 2019
    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

    By Nadeem Zaman  December 9, 2019
    Criticism

    Ophelia and After: Inventing the
    Lonely Literary Woman

    By Cleo Qian  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

    By Bohumil Hrabal  December 6, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
    Origin Stories

    How Journalism Made a
    Poet Out of Me

    By Gillian Conoley  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    Parenting

    Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

    By Matt Grant  December 6, 2019
    On Poetry

    Charles Wright’s Resistance Against Certainty

    By Mary Szybist  December 5, 2019
    Immigration

    Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2019
    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    Freeman's

    The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2019
    Drafts

    What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  December 4, 2019
    On Grief

    Naja Marie Aidt on Creating Meaning from the Meaninglessness of Grief

    By John Freeman  December 3, 2019
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