• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    John Manuel Arias on Decolonial Storytelling and the Multi-Generational Family Novel

    By Christine Kandic Torres  November 3, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Shane McCrae on the Music of the Poetic Line

    By Shane McCrae  November 3, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 3, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    John Grisham on Writing Page-Turning Fiction About Big Issues

    By The Literary Life  November 3, 2023
    Love and Romance

    Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

    By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
    Languages

    How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Jesse David Fox On Cheap Laughs

    By The Maris Review  November 2, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 2, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Shir Alon and Joseph Farag on Palestinian Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 2, 2023
    On Translation

    Consider the Words: On Translating Infinite Jest into Farsi

    By Moeen Farrokhi  November 1, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
    Ghosts!

    On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 31, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches

    By Diana Helmuth  October 31, 2023
    Monsters

    “A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

    By Adrian Van Young  October 31, 2023
    Animals

    The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

    By Justin C Key  October 31, 2023
    Fear

    What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

    By Danielle Trussoni  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    “Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

    By Justin Phillip Reed  October 31, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

    By Talk Easy  October 31, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Tim O’Brien on Letting the World Decide What He’ll Read Next

    By Literary Hub  October 30, 2023
    Epic poetry

    A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines

    By Robin Lane Fox  October 30, 2023
    Write-minded

    Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

    By Write-minded   October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

    By Patty Crane  October 27, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
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