• Craft and Criticism

    Literary Criticism

    On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

    By Tobias Carroll  May 3, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

    By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Annotations

    Finnegan’s Wake at 80:
    In Defense of the Difficult

    By Susie Lopez  May 3, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Poetry, Like Witchcraft and Magick, is an Act of Transformation

    By Janaka Stucky  May 3, 2019
    #MeToo Novels?

    Miriam Toews on What Forgiveness Means in the #MeToo Era

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 2, 2019
    Modern Classics

    Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker

    By Eileen Myles  May 2, 2019
    Influences

    Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, and Barbara Smith
    on Their Literary Influences

    By William Johnson  May 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Happy birthday, Joseph Heller! Here’s a gift: a classic review of Catch-22.

    By Katie Yee  May 1, 2019
    Terminal Wit

    Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

    By Mervyn Horder  May 1, 2019
    Editors

    The Comma Queen and
    the Internet’s Copy Chief on What Matters to a Copyeditor

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2019
    Identity

    Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My
    Parents Can’t Read

    By Kia Abdullah  May 1, 2019
    Geniuses

    On the Great Clarice Lispector

    By Benjamin Moser  April 30, 2019
    Flânerie

    On the Struggle to Become a True
    Parisian Flaneur

    By Aysegül Savas  April 30, 2019
    School Days

    On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

    By Michael Knight  April 30, 2019
    Bodice Ripping

    Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

    By Robert Morrison  April 30, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
    Writing About Religion?

    By Jonathan Bate  April 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite
    Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2019
    Profile

    Leila Slimani Doesn’t Care If
    You’re Uncomfortable

    By John Freeman  April 29, 2019
    Craft

    David Means on the World As
    Endless Inspiration

    By David Means  April 29, 2019
    Literary History

    The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life

    By Marion Turner  April 29, 2019
    Super Heroes

    Monster or Marvel? A Disabled Life in
    a Superhero Universe

    By Amanda Leduc  April 26, 2019
    The Hub

    William Faulkner’s grudging, misogynistic fan letter to Anita Loos

    By Emily Temple  April 26, 2019
    Advice

    How to Write a Book in Ten Days

    By Meg Elison  April 26, 2019
    Parenting

    Can a Little Bit of Data Make Parenting Easier?

    By Literary Hub  April 26, 2019
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