• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Rabbit Holes

    A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

    By Emily Temple  June 3, 2019
    Dictators

    The Dark Side of the
    Chinese Dream

    By Ma Jian  June 3, 2019
    Teaching

    What It’s Like to Teach Writing When Everyone’s a Writer

    By Janet Burroway  June 3, 2019
    Economics

    How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

    By Lisa Duggan  May 31, 2019
    Contemporary Classics

    Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

    By Dennis Tang  May 31, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  May 31, 2019
    On Borges

    Were Libraries Borges’s Universe or the Other Way Around?

    By Literary Hub  May 31, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unlikely Winner of the World’s Toughest Horse Race

    By Alyson Hagy  May 30, 2019
    Psychology

    On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

    By Amanda Stern  May 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

    By Lynn Steger Strong  May 30, 2019
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