Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought

By Roxane Gay | March 25, 2025

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

Binnie Kirshenbaum: “To write fiction takes patience and fortitude to fend off the assumptions that our novels are memoirs.”

By Binnie Kirshenbaum | March 25, 2025

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

Sanam Mahloudji: “If I didn’t feel an absence or a sense of loss, there would be no need to write.”

By Sanam Mahloudji | March 25, 2025

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

Peter Trachtenberg Holds up the Frame to an Iconic Artist Who Redefined Being an Icon

By Peter Trachtenberg | March 25, 2025

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 25, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)</em> by Hazel Jane Plante

A Small Press Book We Love:
Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

By Drew Broussard | March 24, 2025

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On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

By Mia Fowler | March 24, 2025

Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

By Literary Hub | March 24, 2025

Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 24, 2025

Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting

Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | March 24, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Loved and Missed</em> by Susie Boyt

A Small Press Book We Love:
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

By Julia Hass | March 21, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Choosing the Books For <em>White Lotus</em> and Much More

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Choosing the Books For White Lotus and Much More

Featuring Brittany K. Allen, Sophie Gee, Jonty Claypole, Josh Cook, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | March 21, 2025

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

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

Featuring Kristen Arnett, McCarthyism, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and More

By Book Marks | March 21, 2025

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

“Does it move the story forward? Does it belong in my journal?”

By Elissa Altman | March 21, 2025

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

By Samina Ali | March 21, 2025

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