• Craft and Criticism

    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 14, 2023
    Pop Music

    Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  December 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

    By The Maris Review  December 14, 2023
    Writing Process

    Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

    By Micheal O'Siadhail  December 13, 2023
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

    By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
    In Conversation

    Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

    By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
    On Identity

    One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

    By Naomi J. Williams  December 12, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 12, 2023
    Politics

    Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    Dystopias

    Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 12, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

    By Talk Easy  December 12, 2023
    literary criticism

    The 10 Best Book Reviews
    of 2023

    By Adam Morgan  December 11, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

    By Helen Molesworth  December 11, 2023
    Climate Change

    Why We Need New Stories About the Ocean

    By Natalie Hart  December 11, 2023
    Poets in Conversation

    Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

    By Literary Hub  December 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

    By Write-minded   December 11, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2023
    What to Watch

    Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

    By Rumaan Alam  December 8, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

    By Richard Hugo  December 8, 2023
    The Hub

    Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 7, 2023
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