Literary Hub » Craft and Criticism

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

Why Have They Been Mythologized as Solitary Eccentrics or Isolated Geniuses?

By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney | October 11, 2017

137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

Kaveh Akbar Presents a Crowdsourced List of Signature Literary Words

By Kaveh Akbar | October 11, 2017

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

Ottessa Moshfegh on Insanity, Mistaken Identity, and the Dark Tales

By Ottessa Moshfegh | October 10, 2017

Naomi Alderman Taps Into the Deeper Powers of Women

Naomi Alderman Taps Into the Deeper Powers of Women

The Author of The Power Discusses the Greatest Bloodless Revolution in History

By Daneet Steffens | October 10, 2017

Carmen Maria Machado on Campfire Stories and Queer Teen Touchstones

Carmen Maria Machado on Campfire Stories and Queer Teen Touchstones

Talking to the Author of Her Body and Other Parties

By Claire Luchette | October 6, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Kazuo Ishiguro on Song Lyrics, Scones, and the Life He Could Have Had

By John Freeman | October 5, 2017

Jesmyn Ward on the Hauntings of History

By Michele Filgate | October 5, 2017

Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard's Lecture: Why I Write

By Literary Hub | October 5, 2017

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Meghan O'Rourke on the Need for More Representation

By Meghan O'Rourke | October 5, 2017

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

John Biguenet on Summoning the Resolve to Call Out Evil Wherever it Lives

By John Biguenet | October 5, 2017

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

Why Writing and Reading About Race is a Privilege, Not a Burden

By Sarah LaBrie | October 5, 2017

The Pure Pleasure of Reading <em>Lolita</em>'s First 100 Pages

The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita's First 100 Pages

Hanya Yanagihara on Nabokov's Rich Language

By Hanya Yanagihara | October 4, 2017

Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

Introducing the Freeman's Channel at Literary Hub

By Haruki Murakami | October 4, 2017

How Death Became Big Business in America

How Death Became Big Business in America

And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals

By Caitlin Doughty | October 4, 2017

A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

More Than 850 Writers Are Set to Descend on the City by the Bay

By Jane Ciabattari | October 4, 2017

« First ‹ Previous 781 782 783 784785786 787 788 789 Next ›Last »

Page 785 of 881