• Craft and Criticism

    Nobel Prize?

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

    By Billy Kahora  October 9, 2019
    Interview

    In Which Daniel Mendelsohn Wishes Someone Would Ask Him About Gardening

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  October 9, 2019
    Craft

    Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

    By Brandon Taylor  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

    By Philip Pullman  October 8, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

    By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
    Paperbacks

    Crystal Hana Kim and Laura van den Berg on What It Means to ‘Learn to Write’

    By Laura van den Berg  October 7, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

    By Zefyr Lisowski  October 7, 2019
    Philosophy

    The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

    By Lisa Levy  October 4, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

    By Mieko Kawakami  October 3, 2019
    Language

    Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

    By Johanna Skibsrud  October 3, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
    a Cautionary Tale

    By Lauren Elkin  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

    By Jacek Dehnel  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

    By Karen Solie  October 1, 2019
    Influences

    Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
    I Needed to Write My Novel

    By Ocean Vuong  October 1, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    5 Questions

    Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer’s Block and Women With Swords

    By Felicia Day  October 1, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters

    By Alberto Manguel  October 1, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
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