• Craft and Criticism

    On Grief

    How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

    By Cody Delistraty  June 25, 2024
    craft advice

    Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

    By Alizah Holstein  June 25, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Carina del Valle Schorske on Putting Rhythms into Prose

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 25, 2024
    Friendship

    Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”

    By Rachel Zimmerman  June 25, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Shze-Hui Tjoa on Her Debut Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   June 25, 2024
    Dystopias

    75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

    By Elif Shafak  June 24, 2024
    Fantasy

    The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy

    By Verlyn Flieger  June 24, 2024
    Melodrama

    Brief Encounters: On Claire Messud’s Melodramas

    By Rafaela Bassili  June 24, 2024
    How to Write

    Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write

    By Caitlin Shetterly  June 24, 2024
    Relationships

    Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

    By Rafia Zakaria  June 24, 2024
    Ukrainian Literature

    The Gaps Filled by Fiction: On Victoria Amelina’s Dom’s Dream Kingdom

    By Héctor Abad  June 24, 2024
    Abortion Rights

    Roe, Dobbs, and Reproductive Justice Lit: A Reading List for Abortion Advocacy

    By Merle Hoffman  June 24, 2024
    First Draft

    Lauren Camp on Exploring the Dark

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 24, 2024
    Write-minded

    Shze-Hui Tjoa on Breaking New Ground in Memoir

    By Write-minded   June 24, 2024
    On Translation

    Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

    By Julia Malye  June 21, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Bobby Finger on Finding the Soundtrack to Your Writing

    By Bobby Finger  June 21, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Kate Reading on Becoming All the Characters

    By Behind the Mic   June 21, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 21, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Tracy Chevalier Has No Time for Writers Who Don’t Read

    By Literary Hub  June 20, 2024
    Reissues

    Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead’s Stay Here with Me

    By Brock Clarke  June 20, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 20, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation

    By Channler Twyman  June 19, 2024
    Southern literature

    The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

    By Levi Vonk  June 18, 2024
    Autofiction

    How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

    By Matt Young  June 18, 2024
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