• Craft and Criticism

    Writers in Conversation

    “I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

    By Lucie Elven  December 18, 2023
    African Literature

    Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

    By Sakiru Adebayo  December 18, 2023
    Write-minded

    Baron Wormser on the Subtle Art of Attunement

    By Memoir Nation   December 18, 2023
    Beyond the Page

    Andrea Elliott on Her Passion for Immersive Journalism

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  December 18, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

    By Martin Solares  December 15, 2023
    Writing Race

    Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

    By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene  December 15, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 14, 2023
    Awards

    The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2023
    On Translation

    Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

    By Heather Cleary  December 14, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 14, 2023
    Pop Music

    Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  December 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

    By The Maris Review  December 14, 2023
    Writing Process

    Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

    By Micheal O'Siadhail  December 13, 2023
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

    By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
    In Conversation

    Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

    By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
    On Identity

    One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

    By Naomi J. Williams  December 12, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 12, 2023
    Politics

    Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    Dystopias

    Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 12, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 12, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

    By Talk Easy  December 12, 2023
    literary criticism

    The 10 Best Book Reviews
    of 2023

    By Adam Morgan  December 11, 2023
    literary criticism

    Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

    By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
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