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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
Painterly Art of Observation

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

By Camille Paglia | June 27, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

I Read One Hundred Books<br> Just to Write One

I Read One Hundred Books
Just to Write One

Heather O'Neill on the Compulsive Joy of Endless Research

By Heather O'Neill | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

<em>That</em> v. <em>which</em>: a grammatical throwdown.

That v. which: a grammatical throwdown.

By Philip Hensher | June 25, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

Sadiqa de Meijer on How Landscapes Change as Our Language Does

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

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