• Craft and Criticism

    Grammar

    The Magic Sentences of Lauren Groff, Action Without Verbs

    By Christian Kiefer  March 2, 2020
    5 Questions

    Lorrie Moore on the Songs She Couldn’t Live Without

    By Literary Hub  March 2, 2020
    Religion

    On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism

    By Nick Ripatrazone  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    The Woman in Black has come to haunt New York City.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 28, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Queer Identity

    The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

    By Zee Francis  February 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    Ghost Stories and Love Stories: Fear and Longing in Homesick

    By New Books Network  February 28, 2020
    Poets

    Dorothea Lasky and Julia Guez: On Queenliness, Metaphysics, and Book Tour

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    Sarah Kozloff Doesn’t Normalize Violence in Her Fantasy Novels

    By New Books Network  February 27, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    Nostalgia

    I Just Watched You’ve Got Mail for the First Time and You Guys, It’s Bad

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2020
    Literary History

    A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
    Addiction

    Writing About My Alcohol Addiction Helped Treat It

    By Clare Pooley  February 26, 2020
    In Conversation

    In Mark Rader’s Debut Novel, Love Stands in the Way of Obligation

    By Lori Feathers  February 26, 2020
    Marginalia

    A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

    By Antonia Angress  February 25, 2020
    WWII

    Erik Larson on Writing Wartime Life During the London Blitz

    By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    What I’ve Learned Interviewing Almost 300 Writers Over Seven Years

    By Teddy Wayne  February 25, 2020
    5 Questions

    Colum McCann on Ulysses, Mary Lavin, and Drinking with John Berger

    By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    Teaching High School

    You Can’t Teach High School English Without Hope

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    Self-Help?

    Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

    By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    Poets

    Danez Smith: ‘Being a Poet Means Committing to Vulnerability’

    By Sheila Regan  February 21, 2020
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