• Craft and Criticism

    Romance

    Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

    By Lauren Forsythe  September 29, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

    By Isle McElroy  September 29, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

    By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
    Sexual Assault

    You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

    By Kim DeRose  September 28, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 28, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

    By The Maris Review  September 28, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

    By So Many Damn Books  September 28, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Genre

    The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  September 27, 2023
    On Writing

    The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

    By Steve Stern  September 27, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

    By Emily Wilson  September 26, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Writing the Novel

    How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

    By Nora Fussner  September 26, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 26, 2023
    Lit Century

    Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    By Lit Century   September 26, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

    By Talk Easy  September 26, 2023
    Asian American Literature

    New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger

    By Alexander Chee  September 25, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

    By Literary Hub  September 25, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Utopias

    Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

    By Jen Silverman  September 25, 2023
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