• Craft and Criticism

    Experimental Fiction

    Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

    By Sam Mills  February 14, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

    By Roisín O'Donnell  February 14, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 13, 2025
    Italian Literature

    Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

    By Ann Goldstein  February 13, 2025
    Publishing

    Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

    By Maris Kreizman  February 13, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 13, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 13, 2025
    Gaza

    Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Brigitte Giraud Wasn’t a Writer, She Would’ve Been a Pop Star

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2025
    Literary History

    An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

    By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
    craft advice

    From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

    By Alejandro Heredia  February 12, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 12, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

    By The Critic and Her Publics   February 11, 2025
    In Conversation

    Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 11, 2025
    Sex

    How to Write a Good Sex Scene

    By Emily Temple  February 11, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  February 11, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Truth and Reconciliation:
    Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

    By Lauren Francis-Sharma  February 11, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Eve L. Ewing! Pankaj Mishra! A history of nudity! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 11, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book
    on Dating Apps

    By Chloé Caldwell  February 10, 2025
    On Grief

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  February 10, 2025
    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2025
    Write-minded

    Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

    By Write-minded   February 10, 2025
    Literary Journals

    The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 7, 2025
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