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Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 7, 2025

Write-Minded on Miranda July's <em>All Fours</em>

Write-Minded on Miranda July's All Fours

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | April 7, 2025

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 4, 2025

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

“The mistake, in fact, is a gift. The break, or breakdown, allows for a breakthrough.”

By Maggie Smith | April 4, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring David Szalay, Elaine Pagels, Joe Dunthorne, and More

By Book Marks | April 4, 2025

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

“To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 4, 2025

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

By Kristen Arnett | April 3, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive.”

By Book Marks | April 3, 2025

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”

By Rachel Kushner | April 1, 2025

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