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When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

Kimi Eisele on Finding Light in the Darkness of a Financial Dystopia

By Kimi Eisele | July 8, 2019

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

The Art World Doesn't Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

Barbara Bourland on Value and Excess in the Art Market

By Barbara Bourland | July 2, 2019

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

Celebrate Walt Whitman's Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

An Exhibit of His Life and Works is on Display through September

By Ted Widmer | July 2, 2019

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2019

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

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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

By Emily Firetog | June 28, 2019

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri's Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

By Domenico Starnone | June 28, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

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

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

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

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

On <em>Myra Breckinridge</em> and the Life of Gore Vidal

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

Camille Paglia Unpacks the Mores of a Different Era

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

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