The Liberation and Consternation of Writing a Whole Book with Paper and Pen

The Liberation and Consternation of Writing a Whole Book with Paper and Pen

In Which Jeff Gordinier Writes an Essay on the Train

By Jeff Gordinier | July 10, 2019

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

Madeline ffitch on the Politics of "Conflict" in the Stories We Tell

By Madeline ffitch | July 9, 2019

Courtney Maum, Rawi Hage, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

Courtney Maum, Rawi Hage, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne | July 9, 2019

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

Kimi Eisele on Finding Light in the Darkness of a Financial Dystopia

By Kimi Eisele | July 8, 2019

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The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

By Barbara Bourland | July 2, 2019

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

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Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

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What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

Gabriel Urza on the Literary Virtues of Defamiliarization

By Gabriel Urza | July 1, 2019

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Kummer on Picasso, van Gogh, Hopper, and the
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By Luke Jerod Kummer | July 1, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in June

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

Domenico Starnone on the 20th Anniversary of Interpreter of Maladies

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Liza Wieland on Finding Darkness Where So Many Find Light

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

On the Canny Cro-Magnon Woman in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children Series

By Amanda Rea | June 28, 2019

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

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