• Craft and Criticism

    News and Culture

    Jim DeRogatis: Consuming the Art of a Predator is Always a Moral Choice

    By Jim DeRogatis  June 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

    By Jaime Fuller  June 11, 2019
    sweet dreams are made of myth

    What, to the Writer,
    Are Dreams?

    By Lauren Acampora  June 11, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Nicole Dennis-Benn, Domenica Ruta, and More Take the LitHub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  June 11, 2019
    Black Bodies

    On Alabama’s Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women’s Bodies

    By Camille T. Dungy  June 11, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania

    By Barbara Hurd  June 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

    By Lauren Markham  June 10, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    Science fiction

    Why We Write About This Thing Called the Future

    By Naomi Alderman  June 7, 2019
    Dystopias

    With Apologies to Orwell, We’ve Gone Way Past 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 7, 2019
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in May

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 7, 2019
    Literary History

    Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Case Against R. Kelly is
    a Case Against Us

    By Treva Lindsey  June 6, 2019
    Nature Writing

    Robert Macfarlane Finds a Little Hope in the World’s Darkest Places

    By Andrew Ervin  June 6, 2019
    Grief

    Kim Hooper on the Heavy Toll of Miscarriage on a Marriage

    By Kim Hooper  June 6, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

    By Jay Parini  June 6, 2019
    Poets in Conversation

    “I Am Black and Reflective.” Keith S. Wilson Talks to Jericho Brown

    By Literary Hub  June 6, 2019
    Dystopias

    70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

    By John Rodden  June 5, 2019
    American History

    The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

    By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
    In Conversation

    Mitchell S. Jackson on ‘Stitching Together Imagined Communities’

    By Literary Hub  June 5, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

    By Hanan al-Shaykh  June 5, 2019
    Storytelling

    What Silent Film Taught Me About Storytelling

    By Dominic Smith  June 4, 2019
    Appreciations

    Deadwood, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off

    By Tyler Malone  June 4, 2019
    Reading Behind Bars

    How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

    By Tyler Wetherall  June 4, 2019
    Literary History

    Pablo Neruda’s Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

    By Jamie James  June 3, 2019
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