• Craft and Criticism

    Fascism

    Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

    By Francesco Pacifico  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

    By Kanako Nishi  August 19, 2019
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Lolita

    By Emily Temple  August 16, 2019
    AIDS

    The Real Heroes:
    On HIV/AIDS Activists in 1980s Chicago

    By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank  August 16, 2019
    Drugs

    Plunging Into the 1970s’ Altered States of Awareness

    By Buzz Poole  August 16, 2019
    Romance

    Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother’s Romance Novels

    By Isabelle Davis  August 15, 2019
    Literary History

    Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

    By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
    Literary Scams

    We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 13, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 13, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    Hai-Dang Phan on Poetic Distance and Reenacting the Past

    By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2019
    Reading Lists

    A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

    By Abby Manzella  August 13, 2019
    Grammar

    38 Americanisms the British Can’t Bloody Stand

    By Gyles Brandreth  August 12, 2019
    Language

    The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

    By Susan Harlan  August 12, 2019
    Sex Poems

    On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

    By Lauren Cocking  August 9, 2019
    Tributes

    11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

    By Emily Temple  August 9, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Why You Should Write About Your Characters at Work

    By Jason Allen  August 9, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual

    By Caitlin Horrocks  August 9, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  August 9, 2019
    Climate Change

    Romanticizing Mount Everest Misses the Real Story

    By Adam Popescu  August 9, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

    By Stephanie Toliver  August 8, 2019
    Writing Advice

    “The Greatest Menace to the Writer is the Reader” and Other Advice from Shirley Jackson

    By Emily Temple  August 8, 2019
    Writing Real People

    The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

    By Brock Clarke  August 8, 2019
    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Expatriates

    We’ll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

    By Elliott Holt  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
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