• Craft and Criticism

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    Are you the Literary A**hole?
    Ask Kristen Arnett.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 21, 2023
    Witches

    We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

    By E. Tracy Grinnell  December 21, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 21, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 21, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn’s History With Lived Experience

    By The Maris Review  December 21, 2023
    Remembrances

    The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

    By Matthew Hays  December 20, 2023
    Supreme Court

    Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court’s Checkered Past and Future

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

    By History of Literature  December 20, 2023
    Book Bans

    Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

    By Tai Caputo  December 19, 2023
    Talk Easy

    David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

    By Talk Easy  December 19, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 19, 2023
    Witches

    A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

    By Chelsea Iversen  December 19, 2023
    In Conversation

    Louise Kennedy on Discovering Fiction’s Complex Emotional Truths

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 19, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    5 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 19, 2023
    Best of 2023

    The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    “I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

    By Lucie Elven  December 18, 2023
    African Literature

    Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

    By Sakiru Adebayo  December 18, 2023
    Write-minded

    Baron Wormser on the Subtle Art of Attunement

    By Write-minded   December 18, 2023
    Beyond the Page

    Andrea Elliott on Her Passion for Immersive Journalism

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  December 18, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

    By Martin Solares  December 15, 2023
    Writing Race

    Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

    By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene  December 15, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 14, 2023
    Awards

    The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2023
    On Translation

    Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
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