On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

Louise Nealon Considers the Ways in Which We Translate Experience

By Louise Nealon | September 16, 2021

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | September 16, 2021

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 16, 2021

WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

In Conversation with Brigid Hughes at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | September 16, 2021

“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

Maureen Freely on How a Writer Gets Erased From Literary History

By Maureen Freely | September 16, 2021

T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

The Author of Talk to Me Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Silver Book
  • The Land in Winter
  • Evensong
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
  • The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
  • The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

By Stephen Marche | September 15, 2021

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

By Maria Tatar | September 15, 2021

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

By Rebecca Mead | September 15, 2021

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Vince Passaro Recommends Great Books About the Big Apple

By Vince Passaro | September 15, 2021

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

Andrea Abi-Karam on Writing To The Dead

By Andrea Abi-Karam | September 15, 2021

Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

Cai Emmons on Her ALS Diagnosis and Writing as a Reflection of Health

By Cai Emmons | September 15, 2021

Sarah Gilmartin Reads from <em>Dinner Party: A Tragedy</em>

Sarah Gilmartin Reads from Dinner Party: A Tragedy

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | September 15, 2021

15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

By Katie Yee | September 14, 2021

Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

“I wanted to salute that moment of night and those nighthawks.”

By Dwyer Murphy | September 14, 2021

“Maybe More People Should Have Writer's Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

“Maybe More People Should Have Writer's Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

The Author of Harrow Really Wanted to Try Out Her New Hermes 3000

By Joy Williams | September 14, 2021

Page 368 of 642

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member