• Craft and Criticism

    Faith

    On the Pitfalls and Power of
    the Religious Essay

    By Sonja Livingston  August 5, 2019
    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Welcome to Women in Translation Month!

    By Aaron Robertson  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
    Moby Dick

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

    By Rachel Seiffert  August 1, 2019
    Literary History

    The Encyclopedic Genius of
    Melville’s Masterpiece

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 1, 2019
    Comedy

    On the Difficulty of Translating British Humor Into American Comedy 

    By Alessandro Tersigni  August 1, 2019
    Comedy

    When Novelists Become Method Actors

    By Leland Cheuk  July 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  July 31, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Poetry

    Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

    By Anna Hundert  July 31, 2019
    Interview with a Poet

    A.E. Stallings: ‘I’m Optimistic About Poetry, but That’s Maybe the Only Thing’

    By Peter Mishler  July 30, 2019
    Writing Strategies

    On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

    By Liz Astrof  July 30, 2019
    Poets

    Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
    of Heart and Humor

    By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
    Reading Lists

    8 Paranormal Books You Need to Read

    By Craig Davidson  July 29, 2019
    Writing Women

    Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

    By Stephanie Jimenez  July 29, 2019
    About the Body

    On the Evolution of Fatness
    in Society

    By Christopher E. Forth  July 29, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Friendship

    From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

    By Kim-Marie Walker  July 26, 2019
    Reading

    Why Don’t I Read All My Books?

    By Karen Olsson  July 26, 2019
    Gatekeeping

    Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

    By Marcos Gonsalez  July 26, 2019
    Writer's block

    Got Writer’s Block?
    Read This Poem

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 25, 2019
    Social Novels

    On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

    By Pramoedya Ananta Toer  July 25, 2019
    Race in Publishing

    Monica Ali: Reckoning with the Insidious Myth of Positive Discrimination

    By Monica Ali  July 24, 2019
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