• Craft and Criticism

    Insomnia

    Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

    By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
    Witold Gombrowicz

    Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed

    By Adam Thirlwell  October 11, 2023
    Horror

    How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

    By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

    By Talk Easy  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he’s ever received.

    By Emily Temple  October 10, 2023
    On Translation

    Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Todd Portnowitz  October 10, 2023
    Australian Literature

    Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

    By Rumaan Alam  October 10, 2023
    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 10, 2023
    Write-minded

    Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

    By Write-minded   October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Profiles

    Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

    By Adam Dalva  October 9, 2023
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

    By Ann Patchett  October 9, 2023
    Youth

    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    In Conversation

    Black Girl Group Magic: The Marvelettes on How They Became Motown Music Legends

    By Literary Hub  October 9, 2023
    International Literature

    Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

    By Joyelle McSweeney  October 9, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

    By Hilary Leichter  October 6, 2023
    Robots

    Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

    By Dan Hope  October 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    In Praise of Mariah Carey

    By Literary Hub  October 6, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    On Memoir

    The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

    By Minda Honey  October 5, 2023
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