• Craft and Criticism

    Excerpts

    The Dove’s Necklace

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 2, 2016
    Conversations

    On Bad B&Bs, Writing As a Single-Parent, and the Presidential Elections

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 2, 2016
    Essay

    How Billy Joel Taught Me To Write

    By Benjamin Wood  May 2, 2016
    Feature

    Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

    By Heller McAlpin  April 29, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview with a Gatekeeper: New Directions’ Declan Spring

    By Kerri Arsenault  April 29, 2016
    Feature

    Infiltrating Literature’s Secret Societies

    By Tobias Carroll  April 29, 2016
    Essay

    How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

    By Emily Gray Tedrowe  April 28, 2016
    Essay

    Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 28, 2016
    Essay

    The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

    By Laura Barnett  April 28, 2016
    Close Reading

    How Mapping Alice Munro’s Stories Helped Me As a Writer

    By Elizabeth Poliner  April 27, 2016
    Essay

    On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

    By Summer Brennan  April 26, 2016
    Close Reading

    How Sylvia Plath’s Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

    By Nathan Smith  April 26, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody’s Little Sister

    By Juliane Okot Bitek  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn’t Even Like Sex

    By Jillian Keenan  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

    By Andrew Hartley  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    What Was Shakespeare’s Central Philosophy?

    By Ed Simon  April 25, 2016
    Translation

    Hamlet, Translated into Spanglish

    By Ilan Stavans  April 25, 2016
    Close Reading

    If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

    By Lyndsay Faye  April 21, 2016
    Criticism

    Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

    By Bridget Read  April 21, 2016
    Essay

    On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

    By Michael Peck  April 21, 2016
    Criticism

    Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 21, 2016
    Essay

    My Life in a Buddhist Cult with “The Master”

    By Kirstin Allio  April 21, 2016
    Conversations with Legends

    In Which Karl Ove Knausgaard Hangs Out in His Car, Talking

    By Literary Hub  April 20, 2016
    News and Culture

    Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  April 20, 2016
    How to...

    How to Write Teen Girl Characters

    By Nora Zelevansky  April 20, 2016
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