• Craft and Criticism

    Criticism

    What Do We Really Mean By
    ‘Women’s Fiction’?

    By Rachel Howard  April 10, 2019
    Civil Rights

    Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

    By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
    Debut Novels

    When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is Actually About

    By Marcia Butler  April 10, 2019
    The West

    Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
    Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

    By Annie Proulx  April 10, 2019
    How to...

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 9, 2019
    Essay

    Even My Imaginary Male Muses
    Don’t Measure Up

    By Jen Mediano  April 9, 2019
    Features

    Jennifer DuBois, Angie Kim, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  April 9, 2019
    On Translation

    Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
    of Maxim Osipov

    By Svetlana Alexievich  April 9, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 8, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

    By Emily Temple  April 8, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
    a Writer’s Diary

    By Duncan Hannah  April 5, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    What John Hughes Taught Me About
    the Importance of a Name

    By Sloane Tanen  April 4, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2019
    Features

    Learning to Love
    the Worst Commute in America

    By Devin Murphy  April 4, 2019
    In Conversation

    James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

    By Robert Penn Warren  April 4, 2019
    Awards

    Meet the Shortlisted Writers for the 2019 Albertine Prize

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    MFA Life

    Unsilencing the Writing Workshop

    By Beth Nguyen   April 3, 2019
    Freeman's

    Jenni Fagan: “If a Poem Wants Written at 3 am I Get Up.”

    By Jenni Fagan  April 3, 2019
    How to Title Your Book

    Why, Exactly, Do We Have Subtitles on Books?

    By Mary Laura Philpott  April 2, 2019
    Teaching

    Why Don’t More Writers Become
    Public School Teachers?

    By Belle Boggs  April 2, 2019
    Profile

    Bryan Washington, Rising Star of Literary Houston

    By Benjamin Rybeck  April 2, 2019
    Oddities

    Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    How to Cuss Like No One’s Listening

    By Katherine Dunn  April 1, 2019
    In Conversation

    Brenda Shaughnessy: Imagining Dystopias to Save Us From Them

    By Peter Mishler  April 1, 2019
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