• Craft and Criticism

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    Horror

    The Terror Behind the Mask

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2019
    Feminism

    The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club

    By Ruth Madievsky  October 31, 2019
    5 Books

    Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

    By Kevin Wilson  October 31, 2019
    Madness

    American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

    By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  October 31, 2019
    Motherhood

    What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

    By Cinelle Barnes  October 30, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s Othello

    By Aatif Rashid  October 30, 2019
    Reading Women

    The Honorable Mentions for the 2019 Reading Women Award

    By Reading Women  October 30, 2019
    Gender and Politics

    Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

    By Eric Newman  October 29, 2019
    Translation

    Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

    By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte’s Web

    By Erin Wisti  October 28, 2019
    Philosophy

    What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

    By Charlie Tyson  October 28, 2019
    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
    Being Human

    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

    By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
    New Books Network

    H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

    By New Books Network  October 25, 2019
    Cartoons

    Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

    By Bob Eckstein  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

    By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

    By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
    Interview

    Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

    By Peter Mishler  October 23, 2019
    Comics

    On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

    By David L. Ulin  October 22, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children’s Books

    By Cara Hoffman  October 22, 2019
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